On an anomalous passive in Spanish

The present work focuses on a construction in Spanish, censured by grammarians, which combines the morphology of the analytical or periphrastic passive (ser ‘be’ + participle) with the multifunctional reflexive morpheme se and typically serves to generalize over processes affecting classes of things...

ver descrição completa

Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Melis, Chantal, Granados, Daniel
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2024
País:México
Recursos:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositório:Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx:article/298
Acesso em linha:https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:voz pasiva
participio
pasiva perifrástica
pasiva refleja
se impersonal
verbos inacusativos
impersonal se
participle
periphrastic passive
reflexive passive
unaccusative verbs
id MX_b3aeceab043c16248392f1f0d722312a
oai_identifier_str oai:oai.cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx:article/298
network_acronym_str MX
network_name_str México
repository_id_str
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv On an anomalous passive in Spanish
Sobre una pasiva anómala en español
title On an anomalous passive in Spanish
spellingShingle On an anomalous passive in Spanish
Melis, Chantal
voz pasiva
participio
pasiva perifrástica
pasiva refleja
se impersonal
verbos inacusativos
impersonal se
participle
periphrastic passive
reflexive passive
unaccusative verbs
title_short On an anomalous passive in Spanish
title_full On an anomalous passive in Spanish
title_fullStr On an anomalous passive in Spanish
title_full_unstemmed On an anomalous passive in Spanish
title_sort On an anomalous passive in Spanish
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Melis, Chantal
Granados, Daniel
author Melis, Chantal
author_facet Melis, Chantal
Granados, Daniel
author_role author
author2 Granados, Daniel
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv voz pasiva
participio
pasiva perifrástica
pasiva refleja
se impersonal
verbos inacusativos
impersonal se
participle
periphrastic passive
reflexive passive
unaccusative verbs
topic voz pasiva
participio
pasiva perifrástica
pasiva refleja
se impersonal
verbos inacusativos
impersonal se
participle
periphrastic passive
reflexive passive
unaccusative verbs
description The present work focuses on a construction in Spanish, censured by grammarians, which combines the morphology of the analytical or periphrastic passive (ser ‘be’ + participle) with the multifunctional reflexive morpheme se and typically serves to generalize over processes affecting classes of things or groups of individuals (La energía incrementa cuando se es contenida ‘Energy increases when (it is) contained’). Our interest in the genesis of the construction leads us to locate its source in a regular structure of the language, known as the “impersonal reflexive with a passive clause”, wherein se marks the unspecified identity of the patient subject (cuando se es amado…‘when one is loved...’). Viewed from this angle, the “deviant” feature of the construction in study thus resides in the introduction of an explicit subject, which has the effect of erasing the impersonal character of the source and of altering the function of se in ways that will impose a reference to the so-called reflexive passive of Spanish. In the second part of our research, we seek to account for the productivity of the anomalous construction, discovered through our perusal in Google, by calling attention to the instrumental role played by the participle in allowing shifts of perspective between passive actions and resulting states. We discuss some examples to corroborate our hypothesis, highlight the expansion of the construction to non-generic contexts and, as our final task, take on the challenge of having to explain how the anomalous passive comes to be used with intransitive unaccusative verbs, as evidenced in the data of our corpus.
publishDate 2024
dc.date.none.fl_str_mv 2024-03-05
dc.type.none.fl_str_mv info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
format article
status_str publishedVersion
dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298
10.24201/clecm.v11i00.298
url https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298
identifier_str_mv 10.24201/clecm.v11i00.298
dc.language.none.fl_str_mv spa
language spa
dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298/491
https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298/527
https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298/538
https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298/539
https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298/540
dc.rights.none.fl_str_mv Derechos de autor 2024 Chantal Melis, Daniel Granados
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
rights_invalid_str_mv Derechos de autor 2024 Chantal Melis, Daniel Granados
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
eu_rights_str_mv openAccess
dc.format.none.fl_str_mv application/pdf
text/xml
application/epub+zip
text/plain
audio/mpeg
dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv El Colegio de México, A.C.
publisher.none.fl_str_mv El Colegio de México, A.C.
dc.source.none.fl_str_mv Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México (CLECM); Vol. 11 (2024): enero-diciembre 2024; 1-50
Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México; Vol. 11 (2024): enero-diciembre 2024; 1-50
2007-736X
2007-736X
reponame:Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México
instname:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
instacron:COLMEX
instname_str EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
instacron_str COLMEX
institution COLMEX
reponame_str Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México
collection Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México
repository.name.fl_str_mv
repository.mail.fl_str_mv
_version_ 1858176623732326400
spelling On an anomalous passive in SpanishSobre una pasiva anómala en españolMelis, ChantalGranados, Danielvoz pasivaparticipiopasiva perifrásticapasiva reflejase impersonalverbos inacusativosimpersonal separticipleperiphrastic passivereflexive passiveunaccusative verbsThe present work focuses on a construction in Spanish, censured by grammarians, which combines the morphology of the analytical or periphrastic passive (ser ‘be’ + participle) with the multifunctional reflexive morpheme se and typically serves to generalize over processes affecting classes of things or groups of individuals (La energía incrementa cuando se es contenida ‘Energy increases when (it is) contained’). Our interest in the genesis of the construction leads us to locate its source in a regular structure of the language, known as the “impersonal reflexive with a passive clause”, wherein se marks the unspecified identity of the patient subject (cuando se es amado…‘when one is loved...’). Viewed from this angle, the “deviant” feature of the construction in study thus resides in the introduction of an explicit subject, which has the effect of erasing the impersonal character of the source and of altering the function of se in ways that will impose a reference to the so-called reflexive passive of Spanish. In the second part of our research, we seek to account for the productivity of the anomalous construction, discovered through our perusal in Google, by calling attention to the instrumental role played by the participle in allowing shifts of perspective between passive actions and resulting states. We discuss some examples to corroborate our hypothesis, highlight the expansion of the construction to non-generic contexts and, as our final task, take on the challenge of having to explain how the anomalous passive comes to be used with intransitive unaccusative verbs, as evidenced in the data of our corpus.Este trabajo se centra en una construcción en español, censurada por los gramáticos, que combina la morfología de la pasiva perifrástica (ser + participio) con el multifuncional morfema reflexivo se y típicamente sirve para generalizar sobre procesos que afectan a clases de cosas o grupos de individuos (La energía incrementa cuando se es contenida). El interés por la formación de la construcción nos lleva a situar su origen en una estructura regular del idioma, conocida como “impersonal refleja con oración pasiva”, en la que se marca la indeterminación del sujeto paciente (cuando se es amado…). Desde este punto de vista, la “desviación” que manifiesta la construcción en estudio radica en la introducción de un sujeto explícito, con el efecto de que se borra el carácter impersonal del modelo original y se altera a la vez la función de se, que pasa a relacionarse con la llamada pasiva refleja del español. En la segunda parte de nuestra investigación, nos proponemos arrojar luz sobre la productividad de la construcción anómala, que desplegaron nuestras búsquedas en Google, apuntando al papel instrumental que juega el participio en propiciar cambios de perspectiva entre acciones pasivas y estados resultantes. Analizamos algunos ejemplos que ayudan a corroborar nuestra hipótesis, destacamos la expansión de la construcción a contextos no-genéricos y, finalmente, nos damos a la tarea de explicar cómo la pasiva anómala llega a utilizarse con verbos intransitivos inacusativos, según reflejan los datos recopilados para nuestro estudio.El Colegio de México, A.C.2024-03-05info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdftext/xmlapplication/epub+ziptext/plainaudio/mpeghttps://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/29810.24201/clecm.v11i00.298Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México (CLECM); Vol. 11 (2024): enero-diciembre 2024; 1-50Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México; Vol. 11 (2024): enero-diciembre 2024; 1-502007-736X2007-736Xreponame:Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de Méxicoinstname:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICOinstacron:COLMEXspahttps://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298/491https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298/527https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298/538https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298/539https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/298/540Derechos de autor 2024 Chantal Melis, Daniel Granadoshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:oai.cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx:article/2982024-08-16T21:58:24Z
score 15,638193