La causación negativa y el argumento causado: la sintaxis de dejar y laisser en contraste

Enghels, Renata; Roegiest, Eugeen

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“…In a comparative study, Enghels and Roegiest (2012) compare dejar with infinitival or subjunctive complement clauses in a sample of 1,000 sentences from CREA. They find that dejar mostly appears with animate subjects (80%) but the subject is not always in control as is the case with hacer.…”

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“…Ruiz-Sánchez's ( 2006) study focuses only on animate subjects and the examples are constructed by the author, a fact that undermines the generalizations made in the paper because one single sentence per condition is simply not enough data to rely on. An important caveat of Enghels (2012) and Enghels and Roegiest (2012) studies is the focus on Peninsular Spanish. As mentioned in footnote (10) in Enghels (2012: 22), Peninsular Spanish uses the dative clitic for masculine animate direct objects (a phenomenon known as leísmo), thus a morphologically dative clitic cannot be interpreted as marking the causee as an indirect object.…”

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

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2021

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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La causación negativa y el argumento causado: la sintaxis de dejar y laisser en contraste

Abstract: La causación negativa y el argumento causado: la sintaxis de dejar y laisser en contraste.

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

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

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