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IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature
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Verb Classes and Aspect
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Elisa Barrajón López
Barrajón López, Elisa
Elisa
Barrajón López
University of Alicante
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José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia
Cifuentes Honrubia, José Luis
José Luis
Cifuentes Honrubia
University of Alicante
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Susana Rodríguez Rosique
Rodríguez Rosique, Susana
Susana
Rodríguez Rosique
University of Alicante
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This volume offers a variety of perspectives on two of the main topics situated at the crossroads between lexical semantics and syntax, namely: (a) aspect and its correspondence with syntactic structure; and (b) the delimitation of syntactic structures from verb classes. Almost from Aristotle’s <i>Metaphysics</i>, it has been assumed that verbs invoke a mental image about the way in which eventualities are distributed over time. When it comes to determining time schemata, the lexical class to which the verb belongs represents a first step. Speaking about verb classes does not exclusively mean a semantic similarity; rather, verb classes exhibit a bundle of common features and thus show a set of recursive behavior patterns. Beyond the meaning of the verb, both semantic and syntactic factors, together with pragmatic ones, play a decisive role when establishing the aspectual classification of an eventuality. The contributions collected in this book approach the aforementioned lines, either analyzing the relationships between aspect and syntactic structure or traversing the path from a verb class to its syntactic manifestation. Some of them stress diachronic filiations, while others include processes of word formation in the debate; some of them focus on certain classes, such as movement verbs or psychological verbs, while others examine specific constructions. A number of chapters also discuss relevant theoretical issues concerning the analysis of aspect. In sum, the kaleidoscopic view provided by this book allows the reader to delve deeper into one of the most controversial – as well as exciting – topics within current linguistics.
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The papers included in this book represent an important contribution […] and are of interest to a large part of the scientific community working on the study of Spanish and other Romance languages.
Gloria Vázquez, University of Lleida
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An excellent volume on the interaction between verb classes and aspect […]. The authors make use of the most current theoretical tools and ideas […]. An outstanding text for students and scholars interested in the topic.
Rafael Marín, University of Lille 3
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A valuable collection of insightful and thought-provoking articles.
Ruxandra Dragan, University of Bucharest
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Elisa Barrajón López
Barrajón López, Elisa
Elisa
Barrajón López
University of Alicante
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José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia
Cifuentes Honrubia, José Luis
José Luis
Cifuentes Honrubia
University of Alicante
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Susana Rodríguez Rosique
Rodríguez Rosique, Susana
Susana
Rodríguez Rosique
University of Alicante
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ivitra.9.01bar
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Article
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The conceptualization of change of state in verbs coming from gentilicios
The
conceptualization of change of state in verbs coming from gentilicios
1
A01
Elisa Barrajón López
Barrajón López, Elisa
Elisa
Barrajón López
20
amalgam
20
argument scheme
20
aspectuality
20
change of state
01
This paper has as its aim to examine the way in which the meaning of the derivative base (regardless of its denominal or deadjectival nature, although it will be demonstrated here that it rather follows an adjectival behavior) influences the semantics of verbs coming from gentilicios (africanizar/se, gauchear, etc.) and, consequently, to identify the underlying argument structure in each case, as well as their main aspectual properties. The conceptual components involved in the process leading to the formation of these complex units can appear explicitly or amalgamate with the verb. According to the semantically conflated component, the argument scheme will be different: Hacer X a Y [To make Y become X], Hacerse X [To become X] or Comportarse X [To behave X]. Nevertheless, it is worth highlighting that the border between the last two schemes is not always clear.
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ivitra.9.02bat
21
59
39
Article
4
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Event structure and lexical semantics in a scalar approach to actionality
1
A01
Olga Bathiukova
Bathiukova, Olga
Olga
Bathiukova
20
change function
20
Dynamic Event Structure
20
Qualia Structure
20
Russian prefixation
20
scalarity
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This paper offers a scalar analysis of Russian verbal forms derived with the prefix pro-. The proposed approach is crucially based on two notions integrated into the Generative Lexicon framework: Dynamic Event Structure, a representation of the internal makeup of events in terms of subevents or phases which allows tracking the change of the arguments’ properties over time; and change function, which accounts for the different ways in which these properties may be affected (i.e., initiated, terminated, modified or left unchanged) in the course of the event. Special emphasis is placed on the role of scalar properties of the nominal arguments in the composition of change-of-state predicates.
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ivitra.9.03ber
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76
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Article
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Lexical synonymy and argumental structure
Similarities and divergences in the syntactic-semantic schemes of two cognitive Spanish verbs:<i>recordar</i> and <i>acordar(se)</i>
1
A01
Celia Berná Sicilia
Berná Sicilia, Celia
Celia
Berná Sicilia
20
argumental structure
20
cognitive verbs
20
recordar-acordar(se)
20
synonyms
20
verb valency
01
Verbs that present synonymous relations usually articulate, due to their meaning identity, correlations of the syntactic-semantic order, and due to this, they constitute an interesting field of study for delimiting, with exactitude, where the specific character of each lexical unit resides. This work will try to delve into the similarities and divergences of two synonymous verbs, recordar and acordar(se). With this objective in mind, a comparative analysis on their peculiar syntactic-semantic behavior will be performed, using the information extracted from two databases (ADESSE and FramNet). The results point to the existence of zones of convergences, but also to specific features in their semotactic combination that helps with the configuration of their singular syntactic-semantic profile within the semantic class of cognition verbs.
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ivitra.9.04bos
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97
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Article
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Inner and outer prepositions with Spanish verbs of vertical movement
1
A01
Ignacio Bosque Muñoz
Bosque Muñoz, Ignacio
Ignacio
Bosque Muñoz
20
conflation
20
lexical structure
20
movement
20
preposition
20
verb
01
The lexical structure of Spanish displacement verbs is argued to be built up out of prepositions, whether covert or overt, subject to a number of incorporation processes. Some fine-grained semantic distinctions are introduced on the concepts of ‘goal’ and ‘path’. These and other conceptual components (specifically, direction and source) are shown to participate in various configurations involving conflation proceses at the lexical structure of verbs of vertical movement. A relationship is established between redundancy in transitive structures derived from unergative predicates and similarly redundant V-P structures with displacement verbs.
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ivitra.9.05can
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109
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Article
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Argumental comitative and reciprocity in Spanish
1
A01
José Antonio Candalija Reina
Candalija Reina, José Antonio
José Antonio
Candalija Reina
20
alternations
20
argument
20
comitative
20
obligatory prepositional object
20
reciprocity
20
Spanish
01
This research paper deals with the reciprocity relationships in Spanish. It is our intention to establish the conditions needed in reciprocal constructions and their distinctive characteristics. One of these features is the presence of an argument characterized by being semantically obligatory and syntactically marked by the Spanish preposition con. This argument is referred to as ‘argumental comitative’ and is determined by a certain kind of symmetrical reciprocity, which is gradual and is related to the active role of the agent. This argument has to do with some types of alternations in Spanish verbs that present a syntactic constraint that is referred to as complemento de regimen preposicional in Spanish and is the syntactic function that represents the argumental comitative in these types of reciprocal constructions.
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ivitra.9.06cif
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130
21
Article
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Causativity and psychological verbs in Spanish
1
A01
José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia
Cifuentes Honrubia, José Luis
José Luis
Cifuentes Honrubia
20
causativity
20
dative
20
psychological verb
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This paper analyzes the transitive/intransitive alternation in class 2 psychological verbs of Belletti and Rizzi. The transitive variant implies an agentive subject and an aspectual change of state. The intransitive variant implies a cause and a locative state. Spanish class 2 psychological verbs are causative due to the cause component conflated in the verbal structure which gives rise to the verb: most of the psychological verbs with a transitive/intransitive alternation are denominal or deadjetival causative verbs from Romance origin. Some others come from a Latin denominal or deadjectival structure or from a causative meaning which comes as a result of an evolution in their meaning (usually agentive and local). Psychological verbs result from a conflation process by means of which the verb semantically incorporates the psychological element – as it results from a verbal lexicalization of the emotional or psychological noun or adjective, thus shaping a complex predicate. Psychological verbs are consequently complex predicates with a semantically incorporated psychological element.
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131
152
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Article
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Lexical agreement processes
On the construction of verbal aspect
1
A01
Elena De Miguel Aparicio
De Miguel Aparicio, Elena
Elena
De Miguel Aparicio
20
aspectual meaning
20
lexical agreement processes
20
lexical features
20
verbal aspect
01
This paper examines the construction of verbal aspect as a sub-case of generation of verbal lexical meaning. The analysis is based on Pustejovsky’s (1995) Generative Lexicon and assumes the existence of a set of lexical agreement processes that match the lexical features of arguments (and adjuncts) with the information contained in the meta-entry of the verb in the mental lexicon. Verbal meta-entries include distinct sub-structures, among them the Event Structure, which is composed of different phases or sub-events. The materialization of some subevents or others depends on the agreement processes triggered by the arguments and adjuncts and gives rise to different aspectual meanings for the same verb.
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ivitra.9.08del
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184
32
Article
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Variable aspectual coercion in Spanish fictive motion expressions
1
A01
Nicole Delbecque
Delbecque, Nicole
Nicole
Delbecque
20
aspectuality
20
blending
20
dynamism
20
fictive motion
20
perspective
20
Spanish
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Fictive motion expressions blur the distinction between stativity and dynamicity. The paper presents a corpus-based exploration of the variable ways in which structural and procedural knowledge merge in Spanish fictive motion expressions with oriented-motion verbs and manner-of-motion verbs. The metaphorical projection from motion to stativity does not necessarily conform to the aspectual restrictions associated with state descriptions. In addition to the verb’s semantics and the profile of the depicted entity, the degree of dynamicity of the blend is further determined by a range of lexical and grammatical choices. Among them figure the kind of spatial coordinates, grammatical aspect, quantifying and temporal adverbial modifiers, as well as viewing perspective. Per parameter, some factors reinforce the bias towards dynamism, whereas others downgrade it.
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217
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Article
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Agent control over non culminating events
1
A01
Hamida Demirdache
Demirdache, Hamida
Hamida
Demirdache
University of Nantes
2
A01
Fabienne Martin
Martin, Fabienne
Fabienne
Martin
University
of Stuttgart
20
agent vs. causer subjects
20
agentivity
20
non-culminating accomplishments
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non-culminating causation
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This paper investigates a correlation between the availability of non-culminating construals for accomplishments and the control of the agent over the described event (the Agent Control Hypothesis, ach). We consider two versions of the ach, on the basis of a new typology of non-culminating construals. On the strong version, non-culmination requires agent control whether what is being denied is the occurrence of any change of state of the type φ encoded by the verb, or merely that the change of state satisfies the property φ to degree 1. On its weak version, agent control is required in the former case only. The evidence reviewed from Romance, Germanic, Salish, and Mandarin, suggests that the weak version of the ach might indeed hold. The weak version of the ach seems, however, to be too weak for Salish languages. The final section shows how the existing analyses of non-culminating construals could capture the link between non-culmination and agentivity.
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237
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Article
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The pseudo-copulative verbs<i> verse</i> and <i>sentirse</i>
The
pseudo-copulative verbs<i> verse</i> and <i>sentirse</i>
diachronic and conceptual aspects
1
A01
Jorge Fernández Jaén
Fernández Jaén, Jorge
Jorge
Fernández Jaén
20
cognitive semantics
20
grammaticalization
20
pseudo-copulative verbs
01
This paper has as its purpose to present a diachronic analysis of the pseudo-copulative verbs verse and sentirse carried out from the theoretical postulates of cognitive semantics and the grammaticalization theory. It will be proved that these two pseudo-copulas in Spanish have been formed within a historical process determined by the conceptual properties of the transitive verbs ver [see] and sentir [feel], additionally highlighting the main functional differences between verse and sentirse and their specific semantic nuances.
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JB code
ivitra.9.11fer
238
263
26
Article
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On events that express properties
1
A01
María Jesús Fernández Leborans
Fernández Leborans, María Jesús
María Jesús
Fernández Leborans
Complutense University of Madrid
2
A01
Cristina Sánchez López
Sánchez López, Cristina
Cristina
Sánchez López
Complutense University of Madrid
20
dispositional
20
habitual
20
IL predicates
20
imperfective gnomics
20
infinitive
20
SL predicates
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This paper provides empirical support to the hypothesis that habitual readings and dispositional/capacitative readings are different kinds of generic statements, generated by different operators: an aspectual operator HABASP is responsible for the habitual reading and a like modal dispositional operator MODDISP is responsible for the dispositional reading. We analyze the Spanish construction <ser muy de + infinitive>, ex. María es muy de fumar puros (lit. [María is very of smoking cigars]). This construction put together the meaning of a habitual sentence like María often smokes cigars, realized in the infinitive clause, and the meaning of an Individual Level predicate like María is a cigar smoker, realized in a predicative prepositional phrase muy de. Our analysis explains both the properties of the construction as an IL-predicate that contain an infinitive clause with habitual reading and the restrictions about the predicates that can enter the construction.
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ivitra.9.12gar
264
287
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Some reflections on verbs with clitic increase
Verbs of motion
1
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Luis García Fernández
García Fernández, Luis
Luis
García Fernández
20
agentivity
20
clitic ‘se’
20
control
20
movement verbs
20
thematic roles
01
In this paper we will address the different values of se, one of the classic problems in Spanish grammar. Specifically, we will talk about the clitic which in the usual descriptions has no argumental value and is non-referential: the clitic sometimes called the reflexive-intensive and more recently the aspectual. We will also examine the clitic which appears with a number of verbs of motion and has also been termed aspectual. As we are dealing with a paradigmatic use of se, we will use the term “clitic increase” in order not to give the impression that we are dealing with a specific problem of the form se. This study is set out as follows: in Section 1 we introduce the two structures to be analysed. The first, is the use with transitive verbs, what we might call prototypical (comerse la paella ([to eat up the paella]) and the second deals with intransitive verbs. In Section 2, verbs of motion with clitic increase are analysed, the more relevant grammatical properties are described and a constant meaning is assigned to the appearance of the clitic. This leads us to a proposal for syntactic analysis in which the clitic is the head of the VoiceP. Then, in Section 3, we review the main properties of the first structure type and we show that our analysis also takes these into consideration. In 4, we consider the question of whether the differences introduced by the appearance of the clitic should be explained by lexicon or grammar. We end with conclusions and bibliography.
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311
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Transitivity and verb classes
1
A01
José María García-Miguel
García-Miguel, José María
José María
García-Miguel
20
process type
20
transitivity
20
verb class
01
The received concept of transitivity includes several semantic properties based on the idea that transitive clauses express an action performed by an agent on a patient, and suggest that transitive syntactic structures typically refer to concrete actions. Arguably, a semantic characterization of syntactic transitivity requires independent definitions of semantic and syntactic transitivity and needs more empirical support. This paper is an initial quantitative exploration of semantic verb types and transitive syntactic structures in a Spanish corpus-based syntactic-semantic database (ADESSE) and in a typological valency patterns database (ValPaL), and it somewhat calls into question the hypothesis that transitive syntactic structures are more strongly associated with verbs expressing concrete actions performed by an agent than with verbs expressing certain kinds of mental states.
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333
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Article
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Romance object-experiencer verbs
From aktionsart to activity hierarchy
1
A01
Rolf Kailuweit
Kailuweit, Rolf
Rolf
Kailuweit
20
activity hierarchy
20
causativity
20
experiencer
20
unaccusativity
20
verbs of emotion
01
The present paper deals with Romance Objective-Experiencer verbs (OE-verbs). I will show that the different subclasses fit into a continuum between a causative and an unaccusative pole. In order to describe their varying syntactic behaviour, a finer-grained analysis of the subevents they denote will elucidate that a traditional approach following the Vendler-Dowty classes of aktionsart will reach its limit when it comes to OE-verbs. My claim is that case assignment to the experiencer does not straightforwardly follow from the aktionsart class, but from the activity contrast between the two arguments of the verb. The presence or absence of causativity explains the differentiation between two types of ­experiencer: (a) a more passive causatively affected experiencer and (b) a less passive experiencer undergoing a change of state in a particular situation without being affected by an external causer. In addition, we find a third type of OE-verb: prototypically unaccustative (ergative) verbs, such as verbs of liking, which select a more active experiencer expressing a subjective judgement. These three types constitute prototypical categories with fuzzy edges. Romance languages differ in the way they code the three types at the lexical level and at the level of the constructional inventory. The results can be formalized following the activity hierarchy approach (Kailuweit 2013).
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ivitra.9.15lav
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356
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Article
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Aspectual approach to causative-resultative denominal verbs
1
A01
Ruth María Lavale-Ortiz
Lavale-Ortiz, Ruth María
Ruth María
Lavale-Ortiz
20
aspect
20
causation
20
result
20
verbal semantics
01
This paper has as its aim to verify the hypothesis according to which a verbal semantic class might correspond to a homogeneous aspectual characterization, since it could be thought that all the lexical items which share semantic features within the same class should be given the same aspectual definition. With that aim in mind, and after considering the whole set of causative denominal verbs in Spanish, our choice was to focus on the subset of causative-resultative denominal verbs where in turn it is possible to distinguish two semantic subtypes. Working on the basis of a corpus and the application of grammatical tests, the present study proves that the aspectual characterization of these verbs is not homogeneous; instead, a certain degree of variation exists within the semantic category.
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ivitra.9.16mer
357
377
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Article
18
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Denominal parasynthesis and inchoativity from both lexical-semantic and aspectual points of view
1
A01
Nuria Merchán Aravid
Merchán Aravid, Nuria
Nuria
Merchán Aravid
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aspect
20
denominal
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inchoativity
20
morphology
20
parasynthesis
20
semantics
20
verb class
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The present paper deals with a specific verb class: parasynthetic denominal verbs with an inchoative meaning. Analyzing them requires connecting two notions that belong to different linguistic analysis levels: the morphological mechanism of denominal parasynthesis – a particular word formation process starting from a noun – and the semantic notion of inchoativity – which expresses a change of state in the notional subject. This relation is especially productive with affixes such as a- and em-/en-, and with the verbal endings -ar, -ecer and -ear. The aim of this survey is twofold: on the one hand, to show how the study of the conceptualization base in the resulting structure makes it possible to establish different groups of denominal parasynthetic verbs; and, on the other hand, to determine the aspectual characteristics of inchoative denominal parasynthetic verbs so as to try to identify the aspectual class to which they could belong. The outcome is a proposal of characterization and classification that fills the gap concerning inchoative parasynthetic denominal verbs, since they have not been systematically analyzed in Spanish grammars so far.
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ivitra.9.17pro
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411
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Article
19
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Diachronic prototypicity and stativity in Spanish physical affection verbs
1
A01
Herminia Provencio Garrigós
Provencio Garrigós, Herminia
Herminia
Provencio Garrigós
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actionality
20
diachrony
20
prototypes
20
transitory states
01
This paper shows a diachronic research about the aspectual nature of the verbs doler [to hurt], picar [to itch], arder [to burn], escocer [to sting] and hormiguear [to tingle]. Special attention is paid to physical affection meanings (to suffer or experience pain, itch, burning, stinging and tingling in some part of the body), which basically denote a stative aspectual value. The priority aim of this research is to prove that, throughout the diachrony of the Spanish language, these verbs have traveled between staticity and dynamism, which permits to establish a prototypicity scale within the class of transitory, uncontrolled states where these verbs belong. The existing theoretical proposals about state predicates are considered, and a diachronic-corpus-based is utilized in order to achieve this aim. Our findings suggest that the aspectual continuum results from the combination of three elements: the lexico-semantic characteristics of the verb; the syntactic contexts where it is inserted; and the pragmatic conditions perceived by the person who experiences the affection denoted by the predicate. This union is projected in the different ways to conceptualize transitory, uncontrolled states, and it highlights that, despite being the prototypical physical affection state verb in Spain, doler [to hurt] is the one which presents a higher degree of dynamism because it appears in a greater number of dynamic contexts.
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ivitra.9.18rod
412
437
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Article
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Negative imperatives with Spanish copulas ser y estar
1
A01
Susana Rodríguez Rosique
Rodríguez Rosique, Susana
Susana
Rodríguez Rosique
20
behavior predicates
20
controlled states
20
emotional states
20
imperative mood
20
negative imperatives
20
states
20
subjunctive
01
This chapter analyzes a number of predicates with Spanish ser and estar which may occur in the imperative: behavior predicates, controlled states, and emotional predicates. The imperative mood is usually related to action and, therefore, it would seem somewhat strange to think of constructions where this mood could combine with prototypical copular verbs such as ser and estar, initially conceived as stative. More precisely, this paper focuses on the negative imperative, which is expressed in Spanish through the adverb no + the subjunctive mood when appearing in specific discourse situations. Both the occurrence of negation and that of the subjunctive lead to take into account the information structure, which in fact reveals decisive data about the nature and behavior of these predicates. In this respect, the imperative serves as a source of evidence when it comes to proving heterogeneity within the ‘states’ class as well as to exploring its boundaries.
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Verb Classes and Aspect
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Elisa Barrajón López
Barrajón López, Elisa
Elisa
Barrajón López
University of Alicante
2
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José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia
Cifuentes Honrubia, José Luis
José Luis
Cifuentes Honrubia
University of Alicante
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Susana Rodríguez Rosique
Rodríguez Rosique, Susana
Susana
Rodríguez Rosique
University of Alicante
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This volume offers a variety of perspectives on two of the main topics situated at the crossroads between lexical semantics and syntax, namely: (a) aspect and its correspondence with syntactic structure; and (b) the delimitation of syntactic structures from verb classes. Almost from Aristotle’s <i>Metaphysics</i>, it has been assumed that verbs invoke a mental image about the way in which eventualities are distributed over time. When it comes to determining time schemata, the lexical class to which the verb belongs represents a first step. Speaking about verb classes does not exclusively mean a semantic similarity; rather, verb classes exhibit a bundle of common features and thus show a set of recursive behavior patterns. Beyond the meaning of the verb, both semantic and syntactic factors, together with pragmatic ones, play a decisive role when establishing the aspectual classification of an eventuality. The contributions collected in this book approach the aforementioned lines, either analyzing the relationships between aspect and syntactic structure or traversing the path from a verb class to its syntactic manifestation. Some of them stress diachronic filiations, while others include processes of word formation in the debate; some of them focus on certain classes, such as movement verbs or psychological verbs, while others examine specific constructions. A number of chapters also discuss relevant theoretical issues concerning the analysis of aspect. In sum, the kaleidoscopic view provided by this book allows the reader to delve deeper into one of the most controversial – as well as exciting – topics within current linguistics.
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The papers included in this book represent an important contribution […] and are of interest to a large part of the scientific community working on the study of Spanish and other Romance languages.
Gloria Vázquez, University of Lleida
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An excellent volume on the interaction between verb classes and aspect […]. The authors make use of the most current theoretical tools and ideas […]. An outstanding text for students and scholars interested in the topic.
Rafael Marín, University of Lille 3
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A valuable collection of insightful and thought-provoking articles.
Ruxandra Dragan, University of Bucharest
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Elisa Barrajón López
Barrajón López, Elisa
Elisa
Barrajón López
University of Alicante
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José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia
Cifuentes Honrubia, José Luis
José Luis
Cifuentes Honrubia
University of Alicante
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Susana Rodríguez Rosique
Rodríguez Rosique, Susana
Susana
Rodríguez Rosique
University of Alicante
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The conceptualization of change of state in verbs coming from gentilicios
The
conceptualization of change of state in verbs coming from gentilicios
1
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Elisa Barrajón López
Barrajón López, Elisa
Elisa
Barrajón López
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amalgam
20
argument scheme
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aspectuality
20
change of state
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This paper has as its aim to examine the way in which the meaning of the derivative base (regardless of its denominal or deadjectival nature, although it will be demonstrated here that it rather follows an adjectival behavior) influences the semantics of verbs coming from gentilicios (africanizar/se, gauchear, etc.) and, consequently, to identify the underlying argument structure in each case, as well as their main aspectual properties. The conceptual components involved in the process leading to the formation of these complex units can appear explicitly or amalgamate with the verb. According to the semantically conflated component, the argument scheme will be different: Hacer X a Y [To make Y become X], Hacerse X [To become X] or Comportarse X [To behave X]. Nevertheless, it is worth highlighting that the border between the last two schemes is not always clear.
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Event structure and lexical semantics in a scalar approach to actionality
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Olga Bathiukova
Bathiukova, Olga
Olga
Bathiukova
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change function
20
Dynamic Event Structure
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Qualia Structure
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Russian prefixation
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scalarity
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This paper offers a scalar analysis of Russian verbal forms derived with the prefix pro-. The proposed approach is crucially based on two notions integrated into the Generative Lexicon framework: Dynamic Event Structure, a representation of the internal makeup of events in terms of subevents or phases which allows tracking the change of the arguments’ properties over time; and change function, which accounts for the different ways in which these properties may be affected (i.e., initiated, terminated, modified or left unchanged) in the course of the event. Special emphasis is placed on the role of scalar properties of the nominal arguments in the composition of change-of-state predicates.
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Lexical synonymy and argumental structure
Similarities and divergences in the syntactic-semantic schemes of two cognitive Spanish verbs:<i>recordar</i> and <i>acordar(se)</i>
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Celia Berná Sicilia
Berná Sicilia, Celia
Celia
Berná Sicilia
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argumental structure
20
cognitive verbs
20
recordar-acordar(se)
20
synonyms
20
verb valency
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Verbs that present synonymous relations usually articulate, due to their meaning identity, correlations of the syntactic-semantic order, and due to this, they constitute an interesting field of study for delimiting, with exactitude, where the specific character of each lexical unit resides. This work will try to delve into the similarities and divergences of two synonymous verbs, recordar and acordar(se). With this objective in mind, a comparative analysis on their peculiar syntactic-semantic behavior will be performed, using the information extracted from two databases (ADESSE and FramNet). The results point to the existence of zones of convergences, but also to specific features in their semotactic combination that helps with the configuration of their singular syntactic-semantic profile within the semantic class of cognition verbs.
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Inner and outer prepositions with Spanish verbs of vertical movement
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Ignacio Bosque Muñoz
Bosque Muñoz, Ignacio
Ignacio
Bosque Muñoz
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conflation
20
lexical structure
20
movement
20
preposition
20
verb
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The lexical structure of Spanish displacement verbs is argued to be built up out of prepositions, whether covert or overt, subject to a number of incorporation processes. Some fine-grained semantic distinctions are introduced on the concepts of ‘goal’ and ‘path’. These and other conceptual components (specifically, direction and source) are shown to participate in various configurations involving conflation proceses at the lexical structure of verbs of vertical movement. A relationship is established between redundancy in transitive structures derived from unergative predicates and similarly redundant V-P structures with displacement verbs.
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Argumental comitative and reciprocity in Spanish
1
A01
José Antonio Candalija Reina
Candalija Reina, José Antonio
José Antonio
Candalija Reina
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alternations
20
argument
20
comitative
20
obligatory prepositional object
20
reciprocity
20
Spanish
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This research paper deals with the reciprocity relationships in Spanish. It is our intention to establish the conditions needed in reciprocal constructions and their distinctive characteristics. One of these features is the presence of an argument characterized by being semantically obligatory and syntactically marked by the Spanish preposition con. This argument is referred to as ‘argumental comitative’ and is determined by a certain kind of symmetrical reciprocity, which is gradual and is related to the active role of the agent. This argument has to do with some types of alternations in Spanish verbs that present a syntactic constraint that is referred to as complemento de regimen preposicional in Spanish and is the syntactic function that represents the argumental comitative in these types of reciprocal constructions.
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Causativity and psychological verbs in Spanish
1
A01
José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia
Cifuentes Honrubia, José Luis
José Luis
Cifuentes Honrubia
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causativity
20
dative
20
psychological verb
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This paper analyzes the transitive/intransitive alternation in class 2 psychological verbs of Belletti and Rizzi. The transitive variant implies an agentive subject and an aspectual change of state. The intransitive variant implies a cause and a locative state. Spanish class 2 psychological verbs are causative due to the cause component conflated in the verbal structure which gives rise to the verb: most of the psychological verbs with a transitive/intransitive alternation are denominal or deadjetival causative verbs from Romance origin. Some others come from a Latin denominal or deadjectival structure or from a causative meaning which comes as a result of an evolution in their meaning (usually agentive and local). Psychological verbs result from a conflation process by means of which the verb semantically incorporates the psychological element – as it results from a verbal lexicalization of the emotional or psychological noun or adjective, thus shaping a complex predicate. Psychological verbs are consequently complex predicates with a semantically incorporated psychological element.
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Lexical agreement processes
On the construction of verbal aspect
1
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Elena De Miguel Aparicio
De Miguel Aparicio, Elena
Elena
De Miguel Aparicio
20
aspectual meaning
20
lexical agreement processes
20
lexical features
20
verbal aspect
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This paper examines the construction of verbal aspect as a sub-case of generation of verbal lexical meaning. The analysis is based on Pustejovsky’s (1995) Generative Lexicon and assumes the existence of a set of lexical agreement processes that match the lexical features of arguments (and adjuncts) with the information contained in the meta-entry of the verb in the mental lexicon. Verbal meta-entries include distinct sub-structures, among them the Event Structure, which is composed of different phases or sub-events. The materialization of some subevents or others depends on the agreement processes triggered by the arguments and adjuncts and gives rise to different aspectual meanings for the same verb.
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Variable aspectual coercion in Spanish fictive motion expressions
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Nicole Delbecque
Delbecque, Nicole
Nicole
Delbecque
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aspectuality
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blending
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dynamism
20
fictive motion
20
perspective
20
Spanish
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Fictive motion expressions blur the distinction between stativity and dynamicity. The paper presents a corpus-based exploration of the variable ways in which structural and procedural knowledge merge in Spanish fictive motion expressions with oriented-motion verbs and manner-of-motion verbs. The metaphorical projection from motion to stativity does not necessarily conform to the aspectual restrictions associated with state descriptions. In addition to the verb’s semantics and the profile of the depicted entity, the degree of dynamicity of the blend is further determined by a range of lexical and grammatical choices. Among them figure the kind of spatial coordinates, grammatical aspect, quantifying and temporal adverbial modifiers, as well as viewing perspective. Per parameter, some factors reinforce the bias towards dynamism, whereas others downgrade it.
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Agent control over non culminating events
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Hamida Demirdache
Demirdache, Hamida
Hamida
Demirdache
University of Nantes
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Fabienne Martin
Martin, Fabienne
Fabienne
Martin
University
of Stuttgart
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agent vs. causer subjects
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agentivity
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non-culminating accomplishments
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non-culminating causation
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This paper investigates a correlation between the availability of non-culminating construals for accomplishments and the control of the agent over the described event (the Agent Control Hypothesis, ach). We consider two versions of the ach, on the basis of a new typology of non-culminating construals. On the strong version, non-culmination requires agent control whether what is being denied is the occurrence of any change of state of the type φ encoded by the verb, or merely that the change of state satisfies the property φ to degree 1. On its weak version, agent control is required in the former case only. The evidence reviewed from Romance, Germanic, Salish, and Mandarin, suggests that the weak version of the ach might indeed hold. The weak version of the ach seems, however, to be too weak for Salish languages. The final section shows how the existing analyses of non-culminating construals could capture the link between non-culmination and agentivity.
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The pseudo-copulative verbs<i> verse</i> and <i>sentirse</i>
The
pseudo-copulative verbs<i> verse</i> and <i>sentirse</i>
diachronic and conceptual aspects
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Jorge Fernández Jaén
Fernández Jaén, Jorge
Jorge
Fernández Jaén
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cognitive semantics
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grammaticalization
20
pseudo-copulative verbs
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This paper has as its purpose to present a diachronic analysis of the pseudo-copulative verbs verse and sentirse carried out from the theoretical postulates of cognitive semantics and the grammaticalization theory. It will be proved that these two pseudo-copulas in Spanish have been formed within a historical process determined by the conceptual properties of the transitive verbs ver [see] and sentir [feel], additionally highlighting the main functional differences between verse and sentirse and their specific semantic nuances.
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On events that express properties
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María Jesús Fernández Leborans
Fernández Leborans, María Jesús
María Jesús
Fernández Leborans
Complutense University of Madrid
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Cristina Sánchez López
Sánchez López, Cristina
Cristina
Sánchez López
Complutense University of Madrid
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dispositional
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habitual
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IL predicates
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imperfective gnomics
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infinitive
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SL predicates
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This paper provides empirical support to the hypothesis that habitual readings and dispositional/capacitative readings are different kinds of generic statements, generated by different operators: an aspectual operator HABASP is responsible for the habitual reading and a like modal dispositional operator MODDISP is responsible for the dispositional reading. We analyze the Spanish construction <ser muy de + infinitive>, ex. María es muy de fumar puros (lit. [María is very of smoking cigars]). This construction put together the meaning of a habitual sentence like María often smokes cigars, realized in the infinitive clause, and the meaning of an Individual Level predicate like María is a cigar smoker, realized in a predicative prepositional phrase muy de. Our analysis explains both the properties of the construction as an IL-predicate that contain an infinitive clause with habitual reading and the restrictions about the predicates that can enter the construction.
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Some reflections on verbs with clitic increase
Verbs of motion
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Luis García Fernández
García Fernández, Luis
Luis
García Fernández
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agentivity
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clitic ‘se’
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control
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movement verbs
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thematic roles
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In this paper we will address the different values of se, one of the classic problems in Spanish grammar. Specifically, we will talk about the clitic which in the usual descriptions has no argumental value and is non-referential: the clitic sometimes called the reflexive-intensive and more recently the aspectual. We will also examine the clitic which appears with a number of verbs of motion and has also been termed aspectual. As we are dealing with a paradigmatic use of se, we will use the term “clitic increase” in order not to give the impression that we are dealing with a specific problem of the form se. This study is set out as follows: in Section 1 we introduce the two structures to be analysed. The first, is the use with transitive verbs, what we might call prototypical (comerse la paella ([to eat up the paella]) and the second deals with intransitive verbs. In Section 2, verbs of motion with clitic increase are analysed, the more relevant grammatical properties are described and a constant meaning is assigned to the appearance of the clitic. This leads us to a proposal for syntactic analysis in which the clitic is the head of the VoiceP. Then, in Section 3, we review the main properties of the first structure type and we show that our analysis also takes these into consideration. In 4, we consider the question of whether the differences introduced by the appearance of the clitic should be explained by lexicon or grammar. We end with conclusions and bibliography.
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Transitivity and verb classes
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José María García-Miguel
García-Miguel, José María
José María
García-Miguel
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process type
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transitivity
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verb class
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The received concept of transitivity includes several semantic properties based on the idea that transitive clauses express an action performed by an agent on a patient, and suggest that transitive syntactic structures typically refer to concrete actions. Arguably, a semantic characterization of syntactic transitivity requires independent definitions of semantic and syntactic transitivity and needs more empirical support. This paper is an initial quantitative exploration of semantic verb types and transitive syntactic structures in a Spanish corpus-based syntactic-semantic database (ADESSE) and in a typological valency patterns database (ValPaL), and it somewhat calls into question the hypothesis that transitive syntactic structures are more strongly associated with verbs expressing concrete actions performed by an agent than with verbs expressing certain kinds of mental states.
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Romance object-experiencer verbs
From aktionsart to activity hierarchy
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Rolf Kailuweit
Kailuweit, Rolf
Rolf
Kailuweit
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activity hierarchy
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causativity
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experiencer
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unaccusativity
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verbs of emotion
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The present paper deals with Romance Objective-Experiencer verbs (OE-verbs). I will show that the different subclasses fit into a continuum between a causative and an unaccusative pole. In order to describe their varying syntactic behaviour, a finer-grained analysis of the subevents they denote will elucidate that a traditional approach following the Vendler-Dowty classes of aktionsart will reach its limit when it comes to OE-verbs. My claim is that case assignment to the experiencer does not straightforwardly follow from the aktionsart class, but from the activity contrast between the two arguments of the verb. The presence or absence of causativity explains the differentiation between two types of ­experiencer: (a) a more passive causatively affected experiencer and (b) a less passive experiencer undergoing a change of state in a particular situation without being affected by an external causer. In addition, we find a third type of OE-verb: prototypically unaccustative (ergative) verbs, such as verbs of liking, which select a more active experiencer expressing a subjective judgement. These three types constitute prototypical categories with fuzzy edges. Romance languages differ in the way they code the three types at the lexical level and at the level of the constructional inventory. The results can be formalized following the activity hierarchy approach (Kailuweit 2013).
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Aspectual approach to causative-resultative denominal verbs
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Ruth María Lavale-Ortiz
Lavale-Ortiz, Ruth María
Ruth María
Lavale-Ortiz
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aspect
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causation
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result
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verbal semantics
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This paper has as its aim to verify the hypothesis according to which a verbal semantic class might correspond to a homogeneous aspectual characterization, since it could be thought that all the lexical items which share semantic features within the same class should be given the same aspectual definition. With that aim in mind, and after considering the whole set of causative denominal verbs in Spanish, our choice was to focus on the subset of causative-resultative denominal verbs where in turn it is possible to distinguish two semantic subtypes. Working on the basis of a corpus and the application of grammatical tests, the present study proves that the aspectual characterization of these verbs is not homogeneous; instead, a certain degree of variation exists within the semantic category.
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Denominal parasynthesis and inchoativity from both lexical-semantic and aspectual points of view
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Nuria Merchán Aravid
Merchán Aravid, Nuria
Nuria
Merchán Aravid
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aspect
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denominal
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inchoativity
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morphology
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parasynthesis
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semantics
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verb class
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The present paper deals with a specific verb class: parasynthetic denominal verbs with an inchoative meaning. Analyzing them requires connecting two notions that belong to different linguistic analysis levels: the morphological mechanism of denominal parasynthesis – a particular word formation process starting from a noun – and the semantic notion of inchoativity – which expresses a change of state in the notional subject. This relation is especially productive with affixes such as a- and em-/en-, and with the verbal endings -ar, -ecer and -ear. The aim of this survey is twofold: on the one hand, to show how the study of the conceptualization base in the resulting structure makes it possible to establish different groups of denominal parasynthetic verbs; and, on the other hand, to determine the aspectual characteristics of inchoative denominal parasynthetic verbs so as to try to identify the aspectual class to which they could belong. The outcome is a proposal of characterization and classification that fills the gap concerning inchoative parasynthetic denominal verbs, since they have not been systematically analyzed in Spanish grammars so far.
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Diachronic prototypicity and stativity in Spanish physical affection verbs
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Herminia Provencio Garrigós
Provencio Garrigós, Herminia
Herminia
Provencio Garrigós
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actionality
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diachrony
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prototypes
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transitory states
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This paper shows a diachronic research about the aspectual nature of the verbs doler [to hurt], picar [to itch], arder [to burn], escocer [to sting] and hormiguear [to tingle]. Special attention is paid to physical affection meanings (to suffer or experience pain, itch, burning, stinging and tingling in some part of the body), which basically denote a stative aspectual value. The priority aim of this research is to prove that, throughout the diachrony of the Spanish language, these verbs have traveled between staticity and dynamism, which permits to establish a prototypicity scale within the class of transitory, uncontrolled states where these verbs belong. The existing theoretical proposals about state predicates are considered, and a diachronic-corpus-based is utilized in order to achieve this aim. Our findings suggest that the aspectual continuum results from the combination of three elements: the lexico-semantic characteristics of the verb; the syntactic contexts where it is inserted; and the pragmatic conditions perceived by the person who experiences the affection denoted by the predicate. This union is projected in the different ways to conceptualize transitory, uncontrolled states, and it highlights that, despite being the prototypical physical affection state verb in Spain, doler [to hurt] is the one which presents a higher degree of dynamism because it appears in a greater number of dynamic contexts.
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Negative imperatives with Spanish copulas ser y estar
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Susana Rodríguez Rosique
Rodríguez Rosique, Susana
Susana
Rodríguez Rosique
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behavior predicates
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controlled states
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emotional states
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imperative mood
20
negative imperatives
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states
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subjunctive
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This chapter analyzes a number of predicates with Spanish ser and estar which may occur in the imperative: behavior predicates, controlled states, and emotional predicates. The imperative mood is usually related to action and, therefore, it would seem somewhat strange to think of constructions where this mood could combine with prototypical copular verbs such as ser and estar, initially conceived as stative. More precisely, this paper focuses on the negative imperative, which is expressed in Spanish through the adverb no + the subjunctive mood when appearing in specific discourse situations. Both the occurrence of negation and that of the subjunctive lead to take into account the information structure, which in fact reveals decisive data about the nature and behavior of these predicates. In this respect, the imperative serves as a source of evidence when it comes to proving heterogeneity within the ‘states’ class as well as to exploring its boundaries.
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