Intransitivity and predication. On verbal government complement and DP (en)

The aim of this paper is to offer an exhaustive grammatical description supported by a series of lexico-syntactic demonstrations, for a set of constituents which up until now have been described in an imprecise way in studies of Spanish grammar. Specifically, we focus on prepositional phrases introd...

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Autores: Cano Cambronero, M. Angéles, Cabezas Holgado, Emilio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Nueva revista de Filología Hispánica
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.nrfh.colmex.mx:article/3809
Acceso en línea:https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/3809
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:preposition
predicate
verbal government complement
intransitivity
location
preposición
predicado
régimen
intransitividad
locación
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Sumario:The aim of this paper is to offer an exhaustive grammatical description supported by a series of lexico-syntactic demonstrations, for a set of constituents which up until now have been described in an imprecise way in studies of Spanish grammar. Specifically, we focus on prepositional phrases introduced by en (in) followed by intransitive verbs such as confiar (to trust). We will argue that such prepositional phrases cannot be considered verbal government complements (arguments), but rather predicates with a «positional» value and selected by the verb. This proposal is supported throughout by a detailed empirical study.