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Hong, Ki-Sun. 2014. Multiple Case Construction in Korean and the Discourse Structure. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 39-3, 677-699. This paper attempts to explain the so-called multiple case construction in Korean from a discourse-theoretic point of view. It suggests that the construction should be explained in terms of how speakers package and arrange the information they intend to convey within a sentence. To elucidate such a communicative motivation, it proposes the Discourse Structure consisting of a Discourse Theme and a Discourse Rheme and shows how the Structure provides a comprehensive account for various kinds of multiple case construction. The fundamental question this paper addresses is wherein lies essential differences between the syntactic-oriented language like English and the discourse-oriented language like Korean from a typological viewpoint. Its answer is that one of the differences lies in the principle determining the basic sentence structure, which the multiple case construction seems to exemplify best. (Seoul National University)