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Kim, Kyunghwan. 2014. An Automodular Account of Pragmatically Motivated Accusatives. Journal of Linguistic Studies 19(3), 211-232. This paper attempts to formalize some of the phenomena observed in pragmatically motivated suffixation of the accusative marker in Korean. Replacing the case marker on the indirect object, the causee, and the possessor with the accusative is explicated as the assignment of the patient role in role structure, which represents the cognitive contents of events and the cognitive status of the participants. Replacing a postposition with the accusative is analyzed as an instance of transitivization in function-argument structure, which represents the logical structure of sentences and consists of semantic categories such as argument and proposition. Other cases in which the accusative is optionally added, which results in emphasizing the host, may require an explanation in a separate module related to discourse-function or information structure. The theoretical framework implemented in this paper is called automodular grammar, which takes the view that grammar consists of independently and simultaneously generated modules that are associated through the lexicon. (Kyonggi University)