Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages

MacKenzie, Ian

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“…However, the claim that earlier stages of Ibero-Romance languages code an opposition of unaccusativity and unergativity via auxiliary selection is based on the assumption that the BE + past participle and the HAVE + past participle construction with intransitive verbs are functionally equivalent, that is, instances of verbal perfect (anterior). As Mackenzie (2006) and Rosemeyer (2014) have shown, this assumption is by no means evident.…”

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“…On the contrary, the por-PPs in the Mediaeval Spanish example (5) indicate the reasons for being dead ('to be dead because of'). These examples may illustrate Mackenzie (2006) approach, worked out and proven through a large corpora analysis by Rosemeyer (2014). Mackenzie (2006, pp.…”

Section: Esse + Past Participle < Ser + Past Participlementioning

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“…Latin deponent verbs with an activity aktionsart, such as fabulari ('to speak'), were ruled out, and presumably prototypical unaccusatives such as venire ('to come') 12 were included (ibid., p. 134). According to Mackenzie (2006), the maintenance of the periphrastic construction with a semantically more homogeneous group is due to a functional split. The synthetic perfect functions as an anterior while the periphrastic construction is reanalyzed as a copula + verbal adjective construction with a "resultant-state" type of meaning.…”

Section: Esse + Past Participle < Ser + Past Participlementioning

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Exaptation, Refunctionalization, Decapitalization—BE + Past Participle with Intransitive Verbs in Mediaeval and Early Modern Spanish

Kailuweit

2018

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The chapter presents the current state of research concerning the development of the BE + past participle constructions from Latin to Spanish. Starting from the description in Rosemeyer (2014) and the theoretical background collated in Kailuweit and Rosemeyer (2015), it will be shown that the functional change does not follow traditional grammaticalization paths. Several concepts that deal with cases contradicting traditional grammaticalization theory will be discussed. 'Exaption' (Lass 1990(Lass , 1997, focusing on total defunctionalization does not account for the fact that the resultative value of the BE + past participle construction, marginal in Latin, becomes central in Mediaeval Spanish. 'Refunctionalization' Smith (2008 captures this aspect in a more appropriate way. However, the development of the construction could be also conceived as the opposite of what Pountain (2000) describes as 'capitalization': a process of 'decapitalization,' by which a feature is exploited, not for wider, but for more restricted purposes.

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Section: Be + Past Participle-a Criterion For Unaccusativity?mentioning

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Section: Esse + Past Participle < Ser + Past Participlementioning

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Section: Esse + Past Participle < Ser + Past Participlementioning

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Exaptation, Refunctionalization, Decapitalization—BE + Past Participle with Intransitive Verbs in Mediaeval and Early Modern Spanish

Kailuweit

2018

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“…Such semantic-functionally oriented research has been fruitful in Spanish syntax and has been published as a form of book monograph or edited volumes of a collection of articles (Clements & Yoon 2006, Cornillie 2007, Delbecque 2003, Mackenzie 2006, Olbertz 1998, Yoon 2007a, among others) as well as articles and book chapters (Clements 1988, 1994, 2006a, 2006b, 2006c, Mackenzie 2002, Rodríguez Arrizabalaga 2004, Vázquez Rozas 2006, Yoon 2006, among many others). The topics that have been dealt with encompass a wide range of key issues such as Spanish verbal periphrases (Olbertz 1998), subjunctive (Mackenzie 2002), bare nouns (Mackenzie 2003), change of state attributive structures (Rodríguez Arrizabalaga 2004), small clauses (Yoon 2006(Yoon , 2007a, unaccusative verbs in Romance languages (Mackenzie 2006), word order (López Meirama 1997, gustar-type verbs (Vázquez Rozas 2006 ), modal auxiliaries (Cornillie 2007), object marking or null object phenomena (Clements 1994(Clements , 2006a, and ser-estar (Clements 1988(Clements , 2006b.…”

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The Role of Abstraction in Syntax: From a Functionalist Perspective

Yoon

2009

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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In the area of syntax, the notion of abstraction has been employed differently in the two major theoretical approaches of functionalist and formalist models. From the functional perspective, a typologically adequate linguistic model needs to look at universals without imposing too much abstraction on principles or representation. In contrast, the formalist model has been characterized by its tendency towards stating language universals in terms of abstract structures and principles. This paper argues that while these two traditionally opposing tendencies remain true, the difference between the functionalist and formalist models is the degree of abstraction, not a dichotomy of presence and absence of such a property. Functionalists also rely on a certain degree of abstraction in describing language depending on various functional-cognitive models within this approach. This paper also shows that the direction of Spanish functional syntax has been diverse and rich, employing a varying degree of abstraction of representation of language. The prediction for the future of the functionalist and formalist models is their eventual realignment, a process that may compromise their respective meaning-centered and the formcentered positions. Functionalist and formalist views on language universals and abstract principles and representation of languageThe issue of how much a description of a language can be abstract has had a long tradition of debate in linguistics, and especially in the area of syntax. The notion of abstraction, or more precisely, the degree of abstraction can be defined as the distance between underlying structures of language and the surface linguistic representations that manifest them. The discussion about the role of abstraction has evolved around the different views on language universals, that is, the ways by which one can generalize knowledge of language. The most salient point of departure for such a debate starts around the mid fifties when the work of Joseph H. Greenberg (1957) as well as Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures (1957) (and later, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax [1965]) came out around the same time. While the Chomskyan approach emerged partly as a reaction against post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that had been prevalent until then, the two positions of Greenberg

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“…und in Anlehnung an Lambrecht (1994) und Mackenzie (2006) u. a. in erster Linie auf die postverbale Stellung des thematischen Subjekts zurückzuführen ist, und wegen welchem die Konstruktionen von der Autorin als »constructions présentationnelles existentielles« (CPE) bezeichnet werden. und in Anlehnung an Lambrecht (1994) und Mackenzie (2006) u. a. in erster Linie auf die postverbale Stellung des thematischen Subjekts zurückzuführen ist, und wegen welchem die Konstruktionen von der Autorin als »constructions présentationnelles existentielles« (CPE) bezeichnet werden.…”

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REZENSIONENCarmen Cañete Quesada: El exilio español ante los programas de identidad cultural en el Caribe insular . Madrid/Frankfurt a. M.: Iberoamericana/Vervuert 2011, 267 S. (Historia y crítica de la literatura, 51) En su elegante monografía de extraordinario valor hermenéutico, la investigadora Carmen Cañete Quesada llena un vacío en los estudios hispánicos sobre las relaciones culturales entre el Caribe pos/colonial y uno de los ex-imperios coloniales de Europa. España y el Caribe hispano se reencuentran en un momento histórico de alto nivel simbólico para ambos mundos: a partir de los años 30 del siglo XX, los exiliados españoles de la Guerra Civil llegan al Caribe insular huyendo de la catástrofe fascista que azotaba al Viejo Mundo, entrando a su vez en un archipiélago sumido en múltiples procesos de búsqueda de la modernidad y de construcción de la nación.Eligiendo para su recorrido por la historia de la estética literaria hispanoamericana una estructura casi alquimista, la autora nos presenta con agudeza un entrelazamiento de elementos culturales altamente cruzados. En una triple tríada de poetas, islas y corrientes literarias, traza una imagen reveladora de la negociación de espacios y memorias entre el pasado colonial suprimido y la alianza precaria basada en la hispanofilia.Los tres poetas elegidos como representantes del exilio español refugiado en el Caribe son los andaluces Juan Ramón Jiménez y María Zambrano, así como el gallego Eugenio Fernández Granell. Las tres islas caribeñas visitadas son las Antillas Mayores hispanófonas: Puerto Rico, Cuba y la República Dominicana. Y los tres programas isleños de identidad cultural encontrados por los poetas en las respectivas islas son la Generación del Treinta de Puerto Rico, los Origenistas de Cuba y la Poesía Sorprendida de República Dominicana. Cada autor y autora entra en un diálogo particular con las propuestas de pensamiento de las islas, lo que reanuda con viejos ciclos míticos de la isla encantada y del naufragio en ella. En las islas serán bienvenidos a medida que aportan a la actualización de la herencia española en un contexto de profunda transculturación, cuya borrosidad preocupaba a una generación de jóvenes intelectuales eurocriollos.Cañete Quesada desentraña las estrategias de autoconstitución de ambos lados sirviéndose de las herramientas de análisis del discurso. Siguiendo metódicamente las pistas valiosísimas creadas por los clásicos de una deconstrucción del discurso occidentalista, su estudio se basa en cuatro fuentes de pensamiento. Primero, desarrollando la idea de Benedict Anderson en Imagined Communities (1981), interpreta »aquellos discursos antillanos como construcciones argumentativas emprendidas por círculos reducidos de letrados [blancos] que no llegaron a reconocer en su imaginario nacional a otros individuos que comprenden sus comunidades« (19). Segundo, se basa en la propuesta de Edward Said en Orientalismo para desenmascarar la fuerte envergadura eurocéntrica que lleva a Jiménez, Zambrano y Granell a ›redescubrir‹ en los...

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Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages

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