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 verbal...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-80fb1d377f594813a5c92f131940cc0f2022-12-21T21:46:43ZengUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaIsogloss2385-41382016-12-012210.5565/rev/isogloss.4034Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectednessGabriel Antonio Martínez Vera0University of ConnecticutIn 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.https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/40little-vparasynthesisargument structureresult state/locationaffectednessSpanish |
| spellingShingle | Gabriel Antonio Martínez Vera Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness Isogloss little-v parasynthesis argument structure result state/location affectedness Spanish |
| title | Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness |
| title_full | Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness |
| title_fullStr | Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness |
| title_short | Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness |
| title_sort | syntactic structure of spanish parasynthesis towards a split little v via affectedness |
| topic | little-v parasynthesis argument structure result state/location affectedness Spanish |
| url | https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/40 |
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