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Chae, Hee-Rahk & Lim, Eunsuk. 2013. An Analysis of Locative Expressions [NP-ey] and [NP-eyse] in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-4, 997-1026. This paper provides an analysis of Korean -ey and -eyse postpositional phrases expressing locative meanings. Their distributions and meanings exhibit so much complex properties that there are not any coherent and systematic systems to account for them. We argue that it is essential, first of all, to figure out whether these phrases are realized as complements or adjuncts in the sentence concerned. Our study is based on a typological approach of Chae (2000), which says that phrases indicating Source and Goal are mostly complements and those indicating Place/Location are mostly adjuncts. In Korean, the Source meaning is realized by the -eyse phrase, the Goal meaning by the -ey phrase, and the Location meaning by the -eyse phrase. In consideration of these facts, we provide a new analysis of their distributions and meanings. In doing so, we group the verbs which take the -ey phrase as a complement into two categories, depending on whether they implicate locomotion or not. We also factor out an unusual type of -ey phrase, which functions as a sentential adverb of “setting up a scene." (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)