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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Autor principal:	Gabriel Antonio Martínez Vera
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2016
Materias:	little-v parasynthesis argument structure result state/location affectedness Spanish Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ecdf619bc17945a69b050446533733f02021-11-25T11:16:43ZSyntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness2385-4138https://doaj.org/article/ecdf619bc17945a69b050446533733f02016-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.es/isogloss/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)
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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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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
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Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness

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