INVESTIGADORES
MANGIALAVORI RASIA Maria Eugenia
artículos
Título:
Maximal syntactic/semantic divergence in deadjectivals: Evidence from Romance.
Autor/es:
MANGIALAVORI RASIA, MARÍA EUGENIA
Revista:
Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Referencias:
Año: 2023 p. 1 - 14
ISSN:
0008-4131
Resumen:
The paper explores semantic and syntactic properties of a set of Romance deadjectival verbssharing comparable derivational morphology. I note: (i) asymmetries between languages wherethe choice of verbalizer does not render a significant variable; (ii) languages where the use of theverbalizer is associated with distinct syntactic and semantic properties. In Italian, the verbalizerdefines a maximal structural contrast in a nontrivial derivation. Italian and Catalan verbs patternas statives. Yet, lack of eventivity and scalarity in Italian defines an empirically relevantdistinction between stative types reflected by syntax (unergative behavior correlated with lackof affected theme/change-of-state denotation). This differentiates Italian from Spanish or Catalanforms in not showing two key properties: (i) unaccusativity/transitivity; (ii) change-along-scaleentailment. A continuum from minimally to maximally different aspectual and syntacticconfigurations obtains. Although the focus is set on deadjectival verbs the unusual properties ofItalian -ggiare , the results are extendable to further data.KEYWORDS: stativity, telicity, scale, unergative, verbs
