Raising vs. OS of the Verbal Noun

The aim of this paper is to show that raising and object shift of the verbal noun are determined by agentivity and stativity of the verbal noun. The functional head v is related to the agentive role of the subject and the transitivity of the verb (cf. Jung 2003). In Chomsky s (1995) conception, v is the light verb to which V overtly raises. In this vein, following Ahn (2002) and Jung (2003), we suggest that ha occupies the functional head v, which means that it is a realization of v. We also claim that it is the [+agentive] feature rather than the [-stative] feature of the verbal noun and the so-called light verb ha do that induces OS of the verbal noun with (l)ul in the ha-construction. We further show that the verbal noun on L (i.e., here, neutral head) undergoes raising to ha on v at S-structure (cf. Ahn 1991), which is due to the morpho-syntactic property of ha on v (cf. Pesetsky 1989, Ahn 2002).