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Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness

In this paper, I claim that the syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthetic verbs a-…-ar (e.g. a-bland-ar ‘to soften’) and en-…-ar (en-dulz-ar ‘to sweeten’) provides (further) evidence for a decomposed vP structure. I propose that these verbs are represented with a structure where v.Caus and verbalizer-v are distinct. In particular, I analyze transitive a-/en-…-ar verbs as complex predicates with a v.Caus-headed vP and a Small Clause (SC) that denotes change of state/location for the theme. These verbs differ in the properties of a projection (XP), located between vP and SC, whose head expresses how specific the result state/location for the internal argument is: a-...-ar specifies a (particular) result state/location for the internal argument whereas en-...-ar remains underspecified with regard to a (particular) result state/location

Isogloss, 2016, vol. 2, núm. 2, p. 63-94

Isogloss, vol 2, núm. 2 (2016)

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universitat de Girona

Autor: Martínez Vera, Gabriel
Data: 2016
Resum: In this paper, I claim that the syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthetic verbs a-…-ar (e.g. a-bland-ar ‘to soften’) and en-…-ar (en-dulz-ar ‘to sweeten’) provides (further) evidence for a decomposed vP structure. I propose that these verbs are represented with a structure where v.Caus and verbalizer-v are distinct. In particular, I analyze transitive a-/en-…-ar verbs as complex predicates with a v.Caus-headed vP and a Small Clause (SC) that denotes change of state/location for the theme. These verbs differ in the properties of a projection (XP), located between vP and SC, whose head expresses how specific the result state/location for the internal argument is: a-...-ar specifies a (particular) result state/location for the internal argument whereas en-...-ar remains underspecified with regard to a (particular) result state/location
Format: application/pdf
ISSN: 2385-4138
Altres identificadors: http://www.raco.cat/index.php/isogloss/article/view/316677
Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/13516
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universitat de Girona
Col·lecció: Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.40
És part de: Isogloss, 2016, vol. 2, núm. 2, p. 63-94
Isogloss, vol 2, núm. 2 (2016)
Drets: Attribution 3.0 Spain
URI Drets: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Matèria: Lingüística
Linguistics
Llenguatge i llengües -- Variació
Language and languages -- Variation
Lingüística comparada
Comparative linguistics
Títol: Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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