Los locativos en la valencia de la construcción existencial española: ¿actante o circunstante?

Meulleman, Machteld; Roegiest, Eugeen

doi:10.1515/zrp-2012-0003

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“…However, the grammatical status of the adverbial phrase does not imply that it is completely optional, because its absence makes the expression uninformative when the NP argument cannot be located in the base space or a previously evoked mental space (Hernández-Díaz, 2006:1130–1132; Lyons, 1967; Meulleman & Roegiest, 2012). If we consider, for example, the last utterance of (8) in isolation of the evocation of the “high school” mental space, we cannot help but wonder against which setting we have to interpret the assertion.…”

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A Cognitive Construction Grammar approach to the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish

Claes

2014

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In this paper, I present an analysis of the pluralization of haber ‘there is/are’ in Puerto Rican Spanish (e.g., habían fiestas ‘there were parties’) as an ongoing language change from below in which the impersonal argument-structure construction (<AdvPhaberObj>) is being replaced by a personal variant (<AdvPhaberSubj>). Speakers pluralize presentational haber in about 41% of the cases, and linguistic conditioning factors are ‘typical action chain-position of the noun's referent,’ polarity of the clause, verb tense, comprehension-to-production priming, and production-to-production priming. I argue that the effect of these independent variables can be traced back to three cognitive factors: the preference for unmarked coding, statistical preemption, and structural priming. Social distributions can also be modeled in constructionist frameworks, with results for social class, formality, and gender advocating in favor of considering this variation as an ongoing change from below, which allows speakers to position themselves in terms of gender and social class.

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A Cognitive Construction Grammar approach to the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish

Claes

2014

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“…In the second place, there is ample discussion among linguists as to whether a complement of space with existential haber (hay 'there is') is obligatory or optional (see Meulleman and Roegiest, 2012, for an overview and discussion, and Gast and Haas, 2011, for a comparative study of formulaic presentationals in Germanic and Romance). While this research then highlights the importance of space description for the functioning and interpretation of depersonalizing constructions, it mainly focusses on the syntactic features of one specific type of construction and it does not distinguish between deictic and non-deictic space descriptions.…”

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Spanish spatial deictic adverbs: interpretation and discourse functioning with depersonalizing constructions

Cock

2018

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In this paper, I analyze the ways in which spatial deictic adverbs function in Spanish. More concretely, through an analysis of spatial deictic adverbs used with depersonalizing constructions, I show how, in the absence of person deictic forms, the interpretation of spatial deictic adverbs depends not only on the physical, but more crucially on contextual cues in the discursive context. Moreover, I show that spatial adverbs used with depersonalizing constructions fulfill different functions in discourse construction than when they are used in combination with person deixis or with a concrete 3rd person reference. Indeed, in the absence of person deixis, spatial deictic adverbs take up crucial functions for the cohesion of the linguistic production.

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De l’usage existentiel des verbes de perception

Meulleman

Sarda

2022

SHS Web Conf.

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Cet article traite de l’usage existentiel du verbe de perception voir. Nous montrons sous quelles conditions ce verbe peut être utilisé dans des énoncés thétiques pour exprimer l’existence (comme dans on voit des trèfles à quatre feuilles). La lecture existentielle de voir est conditionnée par la présence d’un ensemble de propriétés définitoires des constructions existentielles (sujet non référentiel, indéfinitude de l’objet, ancrage locatif). Nous mettons en évidence que pour satisfaire ces propriétés, les caractéristiques transitives de voir doivent être fortement affaiblies, tout particulièrement au niveau du sujet. Nous examinons dans quels contextes des commutations entre il y a et on voit sont possibles, et quel est l’apport spécifique, irréductible lié à l’usage de voir. Cette spécificité tient au fait que voir implique un actant sujet (le voyeur) qui, même réduit à un indéfini générique ou effacé dans une forme passive, persiste à divers degrés. Nous proposons d’expliquer certaines différences subtiles entre il y a et voir par cette inscription, même minimale, d’un observateur en lien avec l’assertion de l’existence ou de la présence d’une entité.

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Los locativos en la valencia de la construcción existencial española: ¿actante o circunstante?

Cited by 5 publications

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A Cognitive Construction Grammar approach to the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish

A Cognitive Construction Grammar approach to the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish

Spanish spatial deictic adverbs: interpretation and discourse functioning with depersonalizing constructions

De l’usage existentiel des verbes de perception

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