Argument structure of perception verbs and actance variation of the Spanish direct object

Roegiest, Eugeen

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“…The potential dynamicity of the DO has been referred to in the literature (Bossong 1998;Roegiest 2003 among others) as a possible instigator of the prepositional accusative: the absence of a characterizes the DO which does not have any control over the process described by the main verb, whereas the presence of a indicates that the DO has a higher degree of dynamicity. 15 What is more, because of its potential dynamicity, the DO marked by the dative has been compared to the grammatical functions of subject (Bossong 1998: 202) and IO (Roegiest 2003(Roegiest : 300, 2007.…”

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Transitivity of Spanish perception verbs: a gradual category?

Enghels

2013

Borealis

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This article examines to what extent perception verbs occurring in a syntactically transitive scheme are also semantically transitive. Indeed, since the perception process represents a mental rather than a physical contact between the perceiver/subject and the stimulus/object, it should be distinguished from the prototypical transfer of energy. It is shown that the semantic and conceptual differences between the perception modalities influence on the linguistic behaviour of Spanish perception verbs. In this perspective, the verbs ver (to see), oír (to hear), mirar (to look at) and escuchar (to listen to) are ranged on a scale of transitivity. The validity of the elaborated hierarchy of transitivity is verified by means of empirical data. Based on a large corpus of infinitive constructions, it will be examined to what extent the position of a perception verb on the scale of transitivity correlates with the preferred case markings of its stimulus/object. A specific morphosyntactic phenomenon is studied, namely the special marking of the DO by the prepositional accusative. The Dynamicity Of the Stimulusmentioning