Approaching results in catalan and spanish deadjectival verbs

The goal of this paper is to discuss the morpho-semantic variation in the lexico-syntactic deri-vation of deadjectival verbs in Catalan and Spanish formed with the sufix -ejar/-ear, such as groguejar/amarillear lit. yellow-ejar/-ear. Specifically, we address two types of questions. On the one hand,...

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Autores: Oltra-Massuet, Isabel, Castroviejo Miró, Elena
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/227334
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/227334
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Verbs
Semàntica
Lingüística
Sufixos i prefixos
Semantics
Linguistics
Suffixes and prefixes
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Sumario:The goal of this paper is to discuss the morpho-semantic variation in the lexico-syntactic deri-vation of deadjectival verbs in Catalan and Spanish formed with the sufix -ejar/-ear, such as groguejar/amarillear lit. yellow-ejar/-ear. Specifically, we address two types of questions. On the one hand, we are concerned with the cross-linguistic differences that -ear/-ejar deadjectival verbs exhibit in these two Romance languages. On the other hand, we deal with the theoretical implications of this distinct behavior for the grammar of deadjectival verbal formations. We argue that while Spanish -ear deadjectival verbs are change of state verbs that involve a transition with a terminal coincidence relation, i.e. a morpho-syntactic configuration that includes both a Place and a Path, Catalan -ejar deadjectival verbs are stative predications that include only a Place, headed by the abstract non-terminal coincidence preposition near.