On Resultative Past Participles in Spanish

A large part of the theoretical literature on Spanish Past Participles (PPrts) has focused on the Aktionsarten restrictions that these items exhibit in absolute clauses and verbal periphrases. This paper addresses the somehow neglected relationship that holds between grammatical and lexical aspect i...

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Autor: Bosque, Ignacio|||0000-0002-7281-6418
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:129257
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/129257
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.155
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Past participle
Perfect tense
Passive
Lexical aspect
Spanish
Participi de passat
Perfet
Temps
Passiva
Aspecte lèxic
Castellà
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Sumario:A large part of the theoretical literature on Spanish Past Participles (PPrts) has focused on the Aktionsarten restrictions that these items exhibit in absolute clauses and verbal periphrases. This paper addresses the somehow neglected relationship that holds between grammatical and lexical aspect in the grammar or PPrts. Resultative PPrts (R-PPrts) are opposed to eventive PPrts (E-PPrts), following Kratzer, Embick, Gehrke, McIntyre, and other authors, and their meaning is shown to be a consequence of the interaction of voice and perfect features. Differences in the temporal interpretations of R-PPrts follow from the ways in which the perfect (abstract have) which they incorporate is interpreted. These PPrts -which are shown to be verbal, rather than adjectival categories- are further divided in two aspectual classes. In addition to this, two interpretations of the concept 'result' are compared, and argued to make different predictions as regards the grammar of PPrts: one is based on the notion 'change of state'; the other one stands on the concept of 'perfectivity'.