Chapter 1
se-marked directed motion constructions
Anticausatives and figure reflexives
This paper discusses the descriptive properties of se-marked directed motion constructions typically instantiated by verbs such as caer-se (fall-se), ir-se (go-se) or subir-se (go up-se). I argue that such constructions are surface representations of two distinct underlying syntactic configurations: an anticausative (Schäfer, 2008) and a figure reflexive (Wood, 2014). The anticausative analysis corroborates work on the same topic by Cuervo (2014), Jiménez-Fernández & Tubino (2014) and Pineda (2016) while the figure reflexive analysis is a novel contribution.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Descriptive properties of se with intransitive motion verbs
- 2.1Directed motion
- 2.2Culmination
- 2.3Other restrictions: Agentivity and permanence
- 3.On the connection between marked anticausatives and directed motion constructions
- 4.Analysis
- 4.1Anticausatives and intrinsic reflexives
- 4.2Figure reflexives
- 4.3
se-marked directed motion verbs
- 5.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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