A successive-cyclic dependent case account of Korean case-marked adverbials

In this article, I investigate the case marking pattern of durative and multiplicative adverbials of Korean, which show a complex case pattern. Providing evidence from two phenomena (intervention effects of negative concord items, and the relative scope of the subject and the event), I show that case marking on the adverbial correlates with the position of the grammatical subject. I then derive the correlation from a successive-cyclic Dependent Case model (Levin 2017), which is a strictly structural model of case. While some previous researchers have taken case-marked adverbials as evidence that a purely syntactic model of case is insufficient, this article shows that a syntactic approach with the right configurations can achieve much more than what might initially seem possible.