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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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:80fb1d377f594813a5c92f131940cc0f2021-12-01T12:14:09ZSyntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness10.5565/rev/isogloss.402385-4138https://doaj.org/article/80fb1d377f594813a5c92f131940cc0f2016-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/40https://doaj.org/toc/2385-4138In 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.Gabriel Antonio Martínez VeraUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlelittle-vparasynthesisargument structureresult state/locationaffectednessSpanishRomanic languagesPC1-5498Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENIsogloss, Vol 2, Iss 2 (2016)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic little-v
parasynthesis
argument structure
result state/location
affectedness
Spanish
Romanic languages
PC1-5498
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle little-v
parasynthesis
argument structure
result state/location
affectedness
Spanish
Romanic languages
PC1-5498
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Gabriel Antonio Martínez Vera
Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness
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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author Gabriel Antonio Martínez Vera
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title 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_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_sort syntactic structure of spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness
publisher Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
publishDate 2016
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