A syntactic analysis of <no + event deverbal nominalization> in Spanish

This paper addresses how the negative particle no interacts with Spanish deverbal nominalizations that denote an event. Firstly, it is pointed out that, when preceded by negation, these nominalizations only give rise to the inhibited eventuality reading, contrary to what happens with verbs, which gi...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Ros García, Laura
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2024
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositório:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/131112
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/131112
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:811.134.2
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Nominalizaciones deverbales eventivas
Negación
Eventualidades
Eventos
Estados
Aspecto léxico
Lengua española
57 Lingüística
5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico
Descrição
Resumo:This paper addresses how the negative particle no interacts with Spanish deverbal nominalizations that denote an event. Firstly, it is pointed out that, when preceded by negation, these nominalizations only give rise to the inhibited eventuality reading, contrary to what happens with verbs, which give rise to both the inhibited eventuality reading and the negated eventuality reading. Secondly, it is shown that, when these nominalizations co-occur with no, their lexical aspect is modified, as they share properties with events, but with states as well. Thirdly, a proposal of analysis for <no + event deverbal nominalization> is presented. We claim that both the interpretation and lexical aspect of this construction follow from the interaction of negation with the syntactic configuration of the nominalization and, specifically, with the projection responsible for the triggering of the eventuality.