Aspectual Properties of Spanish Absolute Small Clauses
The major aim of this paper consists in determining the aspectual constraints affecting absolute small clauses (ASCs) headed by a past participle. A detailed analysis of these constructions seems to indicate that there are enough arguments to postulate the existence of two types of ASCs: those havin...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1996 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:36484 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/36484 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Oracions reduïdes absolutes Anàlisi aspectual HPSG Absolute small clauses Aspectual analysis |
| Sumario: | The major aim of this paper consists in determining the aspectual constraints affecting absolute small clauses (ASCs) headed by a past participle. A detailed analysis of these constructions seems to indicate that there are enough arguments to postulate the existence of two types of ASCs: those having an NP direct internal argument (AASCs), and those in which this NP is phonetically unrealized (PASCs). The different temporal interpretation that these two types of ASCs can receive is one of the facts that most clearly support this distinction. From the analysis of the aspectual properties of ASCs, the following generalization arises: AASCs can only be formed from eventive predicates, whereas PASCs are not affected by these aspectual restrictions. Finally, an implementation in HPSG is proposed on the aspectual information necessary to capture our results. |
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