Acusativo y dativo en la construcción factitiva

Enghels, Renata

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“…Las construcciones causativas analíticas han sido analizadas tradicionalmente con énfasis en estructuras factitivas con el verbo hacer (Curnow, 1993;Davies, 1995;Paris, 1999;Enghels, 2012;García, 2013;Vivanco, 2016;López, 2017;Vera, 2018) con complemento infinitivo (1a) o con cláusula completiva (1b). Esta clase de oraciones bipredicativas ha sido utilizada como prototipo de situaciones en las que un sujeto causante (SCte) provoca que un sujeto causado (SCdo) realice un evento.…”

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Dejar como verbo de causatividad positiva

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Soto

2020

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This paper describes the semantic and syntactic conditions determining causative constructions with dejar (dejar + infinitive/gerund) inducing positive causation. Based on 20th Century Mexican Spanish data, we will argue that the type of causation of these structures is determined by the way in which the causative force is imposed —according to Force Dynamics (Talmy, 1988). This is determined by the verb internal structure, the features of the stimulus inciting the event and the reaction of the causee to the main event impulse (resistance/participation).

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Dejar como verbo de causatividad positiva

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Soto

2020

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Contrasting the syntax and semantics of negative causation

Enghels

Roegiest²

2014

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The main objective of this study is to compare the structure of the factitive construction expressing negative causation withdejar/deixar(“to let”) in Ibero-Romance languages. It is generally accepted that Portuguese and Spanish exhibit a high degree of syntactic equivalence. However, the nature of the infinitive in the two languages is quite different, displaying more verbal characteristics in Portuguese than in Spanish. By means of a detailed empirical study, this article examines whether this structural difference has an effect on the syntax of the causatives withdeixaranddejar. Indeed, statistically the selection of the different complement types (finite clause vs. infinitive, with an anteposed or postposed causee) differs substantially in the two languages. A multifactorial analysis shows to what extent the degree of dynamicity of the main constituents, namely the causer, the causee and the caused event, determine the syntactic variation in the two languages and how this variation can be linked to the different grammatical status of the infinitive.

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Transitivity on a continuum: the transitivity index as a predictor of Spanish causatives

Guajardo

2021

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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This paper contributes to the study of transitivity as a general property of the clause. Unlike most previous work on the subject, however, transitivity in the present article is used to study a lexical alternation, namely the two causative predicates dejar ‘let’ and hacer ‘make’ in Spanish. To do this, I use the transitivity index (TI), a weighted continuous measure of transitivity based on Hopper and Thompson’s (1980, transitivity in grammar and discourse, Language 56, 251–299) transitivity parameters. The advantage of the TI is that it assigns different weights to each of the transitivity parameters and it is therefore sensitive to the particular construction it is applied to. I show that the TI can correctly predict the two Spanish causatives dejar ‘let’ and hacer ‘make’ with 80% accuracy and demonstrate that hacer is associated with higher transitivity contexts. In addition, linguistic features of the causer such as grammatical person and number are found to help distinguish between the two predicates. The finding that a lexical alternation can be reduced to a difference in transitivity raises important questions regarding the structure of the lexicon and the type of information it may contain.

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Acusativo y dativo en la construcción factitiva

Cited by 3 publications

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Dejar como verbo de causatividad positiva

Dejar como verbo de causatividad positiva

Contrasting the syntax and semantics of negative causation

Transitivity on a continuum: the transitivity index as a predictor of Spanish causatives

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