한국언어과학회

German can undergo word order change into [IO-DO-V] in double object construction(DOC), and Korean also can. However, two languages exhibit different typological properties and derivation aspects in this word order type. The purpose of this paper is to argue the followings: First, in terms of typology, whereas German is a language with a variety of DOCs, Korean is one with highly limited DOCs. Second, whereas the [IO-DO-V] word order DOC type of German is derived by ‘a prior V raising plus remant vP or ApplP topicalization’ mechanism depending on syntactic environments, that of Korean by scrambling. Third, the [IO-DO-V] word order DOC type of Korean has a constraint by which an unsaturated function cannot be scrambled.