In recent issue of Language Research (vol. 10, no. 1), In-Seok Yang attempted to
show that the two Korean causative forms, the productive -key ha-ta construction and the lexical causative, are synonymous. To my mind Yang did not succeed in showing that they are indeed truly synonymous, and I still maintain that they are not, as even original proponents of the synonymy hypothesis, e.g. G. Lakoff, no longer maintain that even the English cause form and the corresponding lexical causative are truly synonymous. Rather than arguing against Yang's paper point by point, which I don't think would be very productive, I want to show in a rather informal manner how one might proceed in explicating the semantic differences between the productive form and the lexical causative
