A well-known syntactic property of V-e-kata compounds is the intervention of other morpho-syntactic elements.
such elements as a topic marker, delimiters like -man 'only' and -to 'also', plural/manner markers, and even a case marker can intervene between the V-e and -kata (K-H Kim 1996, C-S Suh 1996, C-H Lee 2006).