Different by-phrases with adjectival and verbal passives: Evidence from Spanish corpus data

Gehrke, Berit; Marco, Cristina

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.07.011

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“…Adjectival participles derived from an acategorial Root, vP, VoiceP and AspP have been claimed to exist in Greek (Anagnostopoulou 2003;Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 2008;Alexiadou et al 2014;Alexiadou et al 2015). Nevertheless, this is not the case for other languages like German, English and Spanish (Gehrke & Marco 2014;Alexiadou et al 2015), which seem to lack the adjectival participle built on AspP. In this paper, I argue that Basque patterns more with Greek in that it involves an Asp operator that instantiates the event, in the sense of Gehrke (2015).…”

Section: Structural Composition Of Basque Adjectival Participlesmentioning

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“…The conditions to accept subject-oriented modifiers, apo-phrases (in the case of Greek) or ergative subjects (in the case of Basque) in target state participles in Greek and Basque are the same for all adjectival participles in German (Schlücker 2005;Gehrke 2011; and Spanish (Gehrke & Marco 2014) (see section 3.4). The acceptability of this kind of modification and arguments in target state participles in Basque needs to be studied further, given that it seems to be a separate phenomenon.…”

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“…In the latter, only certain types of by-phrases are accepted. For instance, Gehrke & Marco (2014) observe that the complements of por-phrases in Spanish adjectival participles are generally weak or non-referential nominals such as indefinites, bare nominals and weak and generic nominals and, among other things, they cannot have wide scope, like in (41). According to Gehrke & Marco (2014), the reason for these restrictions is that these kinds of por-phrases modify an event kind, rather than an event token.…”

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“…All this evidence shows that in Basque adjectival resultant state participles, the event underlying is really an instantiated event, rather than an event kind. Gehrke (2011) and following works (Gehrke & Marco 2014;Alexiadou et al 2014;Alexiadou et al 2015;Gehrke 2015) claim that adjectival participles in languages like Spanish and German are interpreted as consequent states of event kinds because in these languages, the verb does not get further embedded into verbal projections, but is directly adjectivized after vP (or VoiceP in the case resultant state participles). Gehrke (2015) generalizes to verbs the analysis of nominals (Carlson 1977;Zamparelli 1995;Chierchia 1998;Dayal 2004 among others); both nouns and verbs enter the derivation as predicates of kinds and get instantiated when they are embedded under functional projections; Number in nouns and Aspect or T in verbs.…”

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Basque adjectival participles: Stative, resultative or experiential

Berro

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In this paper, I analyze the form and meaning of adjectival participles in Basque, an ergative language with a predominant use of analytic verbal forms. I show that even though adjectival participles have similar morphological makeup, they can be the exponents of different aspectual configurations, with different interpretation and syntactic distribution. As attested for other languages such as English and Greek, Basque adjectival participles can be interpreted as stative or resultative (Embick 2004), and also as target state participles or resultant state participles (Kratzer 2000; Anagnostopoulou 2003). As noted in the literature (Anagnostopoulou 2003; Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 2008; Alexiadou et al. 2014; Alexiadou et al. 2015), these types are subject to different syntactic distribution, particularly regarding the acceptability of different sorts of event-related and subject-oriented modifiers. In this paper, I propose that a further aspectual class must be included into the typology of adjectival participles: experientials. In fact, adjectival participles in Basque can be interpreted experientially under certain conditions. The five-way typology of participles emerges as the result of the combination of two different aspectual heads (a stativizing Asp head, as in Kratzer 2000 and Embick 2004, and an aspectual operator with anteriority semantics, as in Kratzer 2000; Alexiadou et al. 2014; Alexiadou et al. 2015) with complements of different sizes and nature. In particular, the experiential reading arises when the Asp head of anteriority combines with particular vP semantics and/or with a particular linking relation between the subject of predication and the arguments within VOICEP.

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Section: Structural Composition Of Basque Adjectival Participlesmentioning

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Basque adjectival participles: Stative, resultative or experiential

Berro

2019

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“…Sleeman 2011), or Spanish with estar 'to be.loc' as opposed to ser 'to be' (cf. Bosque 1990;1999;Demonte 1991;Marín 2004;Gehrke & Marco 2014). Adjectival participles, then, combine the participle with a copula; this is commonly the copula be, as in (9-b), or AP-selecting verbs, such as English seem, remain, become (10) (see also Embick 2004), and their counterparts in other languages.…”

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Participles: Form, use and meaning

Borik

Gehrke²

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper serves as an introduction to a special collection on the form, use and meaning of past passive participles used in perfect and passive constructions. We discuss various issues which later become prominent in the papers of the volume, which include morphology and participle formation, the use of past passive participles in perfect forms, as well as in verbal and adjectival passives, and the interpretation of such participles. Given that participles in general are characterised as a mixed category with verbal and adjectival properties, we devote some time to address the source of the verbal and adjectival characteristics as well as the source of stativity and eventivity in the interpretation of past passive participles.

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Adjectival participles, event kind modification and pseudo-incorporation

Gehrke

2015

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Different by-phrases with adjectival and verbal passives: Evidence from Spanish corpus data

Cited by 30 publications

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Basque adjectival participles: Stative, resultative or experiential

Basque adjectival participles: Stative, resultative or experiential

Participles: Form, use and meaning

Adjectival participles, event kind modification and pseudo-incorporation

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