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It has been argued that the availability or unavailability of metonymy affects grammar and vice versa. Panther and Thornburg(2000), for example, argue that the metonymy EFFECT FOR CAUSE is available in English, allowing the stative predicates in imperative constructions, as in Stand in line and Have your documents ready, while the corresponding predicates in German are not allowed in imperatives. The contrast in the two languages can be explained by the (un)availability of the metonymy EFFECT FOR CAUSE. Following Panther and Thornburg’s lead, this paper will explain some peculiar properties of Korean ditransitive constructions with the availability of ACTION FOR ITS IMPLICATION metonymy. Whenever the sequence of a direct object plus a predicate implicates its result or its purpose which is conceptually ditransitive, the sequence is compatible with a ditransitive construction. The findings provides cross-linguistic evidence toward the claim that metonymy affects grammar and vice versa.