Korean has both syntactic and morphological causatives. A distinguishing characteristic of the former is that the causee argument may take nominative case. This article studies the syntax and semantics of causative sentences with nominative causees in Korean. It is argued that causative sentences with nominative causees have the following properties: Syntactically, the construction involves only two arguments, namely the causer and the caused event; and the causee argument serves as the subject of the caused event. In terms of semantics, under default intonation, the focus of the construction is the entire caused event. Typically, the nominative causee construction is used to express events in which the causee is volitional and/or lacks control of the caused event. The focus of this article is to investigate how the lexical semantics of a verbal root and the construction it appears in affect causativization. It shows that nominative causee is blocked in two cases, the Nominative Object Construction (NOC) and