This thesis studies verb doubling in Korean:1. It aims to explain why we find implicit concessivity in only one configuration of verb doubling, i.e. contrastive verb doubling.2. It argues that the features within the Σ Phrase (Laka 1990) trigger the concessivity.The corollary of this thesis is twofold:1. It explains the deep syntactic symmetry between contrastive verb doubling and long form negation structures in Korean.2. It expands on the analysis of VP focus in English.
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