Stative Inquiries: Causes, results, experiences, and locations
Alfredo García-Pardo
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 264] 2020. xiv, 258 pp.
Alfredo García-Pardo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alfredo García-Pardo plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 The aspectual structure of the adjective: Spanish ser and estar Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions, Morales-Front, Alfonso, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz (eds.), pp. 137–160 | Chapter
This paper argues that the stage-level and individual-level distinctions for adjectival predicates, diagnosed in Spanish by the copulas ser and estar, can be derived by positing a sortal distinction in the temporal arguments in the syntax: The temporal argument of individual-level adjectives… read more
2017 Chapter 4. Aktionsart and event modification in Spanish adjectival passives Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil, Lopes, Ruth E.V., Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino (eds.), pp. 49–62 | Chapter
I observe that the Aktionsart of the underlying VP within the participle plays a key role in the (un-)availability of event-related modification in Spanish adjectival passives: telic VPs disallow event-related modifiers, but stative causative VPs allow them. I adopt a temporal syntax framework… read more