Spanish deadjectival verbs and argument structure

Honrubia, José Luis Cifuentes

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“…However, discussed examples are all prefixed and reflexive. For instance, Honrubia (2011) reports the examples in (94), and the unprefixed zero-derived counterparts picarar or gringar do not seem to exist in Spanish. This suggests that Spanish does not form unprefixed "zerosuffixed" behavior-related verbs of the French patienter 'wait' type.…”

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Verbalizing nouns and adjectives: The case of behavior-related verbs

Martin

Piñón

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In languages such as French, it is possible to derive from nouns or adjectives unergative verbs that intuitively describe ways of behaving, for example, diplomatiser 'behave like a diplomat', or bêtifier 'behave like an idiot'. In addition to their unergative use, a number of behavior-related verbs have formally identical counterparts that are causative, anticausative or transitive activity verbs. The availability of the additional uses depends on the morphological make-up of the verb. This paper provides a semantic analysis of each use of these verbs, which is derived in a compositional fashion from the meaning of their different morphological pieces. We focus on the semantic contribution of the incorporated noun or adjective, by looking at the entailment patterns between the verb (e.g., diplomatiser 'behave like a diplomat', bêtifier 'behave like an idiot') and the corresponding noun (e.g., être (un/une) diplomate 'be a diplomat') or adjective (e.g., être bête 'be stupid'). We observe that the noun is (re)interpreted in the same way in both the behavior-related verb and the figurative reading of the indefinite NP. The analysis proposed explicitly captures this figurative reading of (e.g.) être un/une diplomate 'be a diplomat', the link between the meaning shift of N in this reading and in diplomatiser 'behave like a diplomat', the additional causative, anti-causative and non-causative transitive uses of the verbs at study, as well as the entailment patterns observed. We also account for the way the morphosyntactic makeup of the predicate restricts the range of available readings.

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Verbalizing nouns and adjectives: The case of behavior-related verbs

Martin

Piñón

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The conceptualization of change of state in verbs coming from gentilicios

López¹

2015

IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature

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This paper has as its aim to examine the way in which the meaning of the derivative base (regardless of its denominal or deadjectival nature, although it will be demonstrated here that it rather follows an adjectival behavior) influences the semantics of verbs coming from gentilicios (africanizar/se, gauchear, etc.) and, consequently, to identify the underlying argument structure in each case, as well as their main aspectual properties. The conceptual components involved in the process leading to the formation of these complex units can appear explicitly or amalgamate with the verb. According to the semantically conflated component, the argument scheme will be different: Hacer X a Y [To make Y become X], Hacerse X [To become X] or Comportarse X [To behave X]. Nevertheless, it is worth highlighting that the border between the last two schemes is not always clear.

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Causativity and psychological verbs in Spanish

Honrubia¹

2015

IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature

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This paper analyzes the transitive/intransitive alternation in class 2 psychological verbs of Belletti and Rizzi. The transitive variant implies an agentive subject and an aspectual change of state. The intransitive variant implies a cause and a locative state. Spanish class 2 psychological verbs are causative due to the cause component conflated in the verbal structure which gives rise to the verb: most of the psychological verbs with a transitive/intransitive alternation are denominal or deadjetival causative verbs from Romance origin. Some others come from a Latin denominal or deadjectival structure or from a causative meaning which comes as a result of an evolution in their meaning (usually agentive and local). Psychological verbs result from a conflation process by means of which the verb semantically incorporates the psychological element – as it results from a verbal lexicalization of the emotional or psychological noun or adjective, thus shaping a complex predicate. Psychological verbs are consequently complex predicates with a semantically incorporated psychological element.

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Spanish deadjectival verbs and argument structure

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Verbalizing nouns and adjectives: The case of behavior-related verbs

Verbalizing nouns and adjectives: The case of behavior-related verbs

The conceptualization of change of state in verbs coming from gentilicios

Causativity and psychological verbs in Spanish

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