Verb classes and aspect / edited by Elisa Barrajón López ; José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia ; Susana Rodrøguez Rosique, Universidad de Alicante.

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Verb Classes and Aspect -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- 1. The conceptualization of change of state in verbs coming from gentilicios -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formation of verbs coming from gentilicios -- 3. Argument structure of verbs coming from gentilicios -- 3.1 Hacer X a Y [To make Y become X] -- 3.2 Hacerse X [to become X] -- 3.3 Comportarse como X [To behave like X] -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- 2. Event structure and lexical semantics in a scalar approach to actionality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework -- 2.1 Scales: definition, types and relation to verbal aspect -- 2.2 Dynamic Event Structure -- 2.3 Relating the DES to properties of nominal scales: Qualia gating functions and change functions -- 3. Overview of the data and previous approaches -- 3.1 Outline of aspectual derivation in Russian -- 3.2 The meanings of pro- -- 3.3 Previous scalar accounts of prefixation in Slavic -- 4. Analysis of pro- using the Dynamic Event Structure -- 4.1 DISTANCE: bounded directed motion -- 4.2 DEFORMATION: penetrate/go through a physical object in a manner denoted by the base verb -- 4.3 TOTAL AFFECTEDNESS: the theme is totally affected by the process denoted by the base verb -- 4.4 Spending/consumption: the theme is totally consumed by the process denoted by the base verb -- 5. Final remarks and generalizations -- References -- 3. Lexical synonymy and argumental structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework -- 2.1 The verbs and their syntactic and semantic configuration -- 2.2 Cognitive verbs: characteristics and syntactic-semantic features -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Comparative analysis recordar-acordarse -- 4.1 Recordar -- 4.2 Acordar(se) -- 4.3 Comparison of acordarse-recordar -- 5. Conclusions -- References.

4. Inner and outer prepositions with Spanish verbs of vertical movement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On verticality -- 3. On DIRECTION -- 4. On GOAL -- 4.1 GOAL and embodied direction -- 4.2 Three types of GOAL in vertical movement -- 5. On PATH -- 6. On SOURCE -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- 5. Argumental comitative and reciprocity in Spanish -- 1. Reciprocity: Reciprocal constructions -- 1.1 Symmetry and reciprocity -- 1.2 Agentivity and reciprocal constructions -- 2. Arguments in reciprocal constructions: The comitative -- 3. The argumental comitative in Spanish reciprocal constructions -- 3.1 Analysis of Tables 1 and 2 -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- 6. Causativity and psychological verbs in Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aspectual alternations and values -- 2.1 The aspectual content of predication -- 3. Denominal causatives -- 4. Deadjectival causatives -- 5. Latin causative verbs -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- 7. Lexical agreement processes: On the construction of verbal aspect -- 1. The construction of verbal aspect. General remarks -- 2. Lexical aspect: The contribution of predicates, arguments, and adjuncts -- 2.1 Verbal aspectual classes -- 2.2 The compositional nature of lexical aspect: Arguments and adjuncts -- 2.3 An additional problem: Different aspectual meanings for the same combination -- 2.4 Summing-up. The analysis of the data from a new point of view -- 3. Aspectual specification as a case of sub-lexical agreement -- 3.1 The hypothesis. Basic assumptions -- 3.2 The levels of representation in the lexical meta-entry -- 3.3 Lexical agreement processes -- 4. A case study: Different meanings of the verb tocar [to touch] -- 4.1 Different meanings of tocar [to touch] -- 4.2 Tocar el agua ([touch the water]) -- 4.3 Predictions of the analysis -- 4.4 Summary -- 5. Conclusion -- References.

8. Variable aspectual coercion in Spanish fictive motion expressions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies -- 3. A usage-based hypothesis: A myriad of possible blends -- 4. Oriented-motion verbs and manner-of-motion verbs -- 5. Configuration and functionality of the stationary entity -- 6. Spatial coordinates -- 7. Viewing arrangement -- 8. Grammatical aspect -- 8.1 Tense -- 8.2 Periphrases -- 9. Adverbial modifiers -- 9.1 Quantification -- 9.2 Temporality -- 9.3 Non-periphrastic gerunds -- Conclusion -- References -- 9. Agent control over non-culminating events -- 1. The Agent Control Hypothesis (ACH) -- 2. On how not to culminate -- 3. Existing approaches of NC construals -- 4. Typology of NC construals -- 4.1 Preliminaries -- 4.2 'Zero change of state' NC construals -- 4.3 'Partial change of state' NC construals -- 4.4 Mono-eventive NC construals -- 5. The weak vs. strong versions of the ACH -- 6. Assessing the scope of the ACH crosslinguistically -- 6.1 Germanic/Romance -- 6.2 Salish -- 6.3 Mandarin -- 6.4 Causer subjects with mono-eventive verbs -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- 10. The pseudo-copulative verbs verse and sentirse Diachronic and conceptual aspects -- 1. Approach and hypothesis -- 2. From a predicative verb to a pseudo-copulative one: A grammaticalization process -- 3. Analysis of verse -- 4. Analysis of sentirse -- 5. Verse as opposed to sentirse: Summary and conclusions -- References -- 11. On events that express properties -- 1. Introduction: How events become properties -- 2. The construction of -- 2.1 The habitual reading of the infinitive sentence -- 2.2 is an Individual Level Predicate -- 2.3 The property of having a certain habit is a gradable property -- 2.4 HABasp versus MODdisp -- 3. Stative predicates -- 3.1 Non-verbal predicates -- 3.2 Lexically stative verbs.

3.3 Interim conclusion -- 4. Eventive predicates with dispositional and potential interpretation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 12. Some reflections on verbs with clitic increase: Verbs of motion -- 1. Two structures -- 2. Intransitive verbs with clitic increase -- 2.1 Inaccusative verbs of motion with clitic increase become unergative -- 2.2 The clitic introduces a locative complement of origin (if there is not one already) -- 2.3 Semantic differences between verbs with and without the clitic -- 2.4 Summary of the verb properties in (2) and analysis -- 3. Transitive non stative verbs with clitic increase -- 4. Common characteristics of both types of constructions: In the lexicon or in the grammar? -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 13. Transitivity and verb classes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Transitivity and process types in SFG (Halliday) -- 3. Transitive and intransitive constructions -- 4. Corpus analysis: Transitivity of verb classes in ADESSE -- 5. Transitivity crosslinguistically vs. transitivity in the corpus: ValPaL vs. ADESSE -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- 14. Romance object-experiencer verbs: From aktionsart to activity hierarchy -- 1. Aktionsart -- 2. Causativity -- 3. From dative to accusative -- 4. Activity hierarchy -- 5. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- 15. Aspectual approach to causative-resultative denominal verbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical foundation -- 3. Causative-resultative denominal verbs: Semantic characterization -- 3.1 Those involving a total transformation -- 3.2 Those involving a partial transformation -- 4. Causative-resultative denominal verbs: Aspectual characterization -- 4.1 Ocurrir que [to occur that] + verb -- 4.2 Después de [after] + infinitivo compuesto [perfect infinitive] -- 4.3 Acabar de [to end up] + infinitivo [infinitive].

4.4 Completamente, del todo o totalmente [Completely, entirely or totally] -- 4.5 Lentamente, cuidadosamente [slowly, carefully] -- 4.6 Durante X tiempo [for X time] -- 4.7 Conclusions after the application of aspectuality tests -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 16. Denominal parasynthesis and inchoativity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphological and semantic connection: Denominal parasynthesis and inchoativity -- 3. Lexico-semantic analysis -- 3.1 Verbs with physical state bases -- 3.2 Verbs with emotional state bases -- 3.3 Verbs with state of consciousness bases -- 3.4 Verbs with bases expressing a noun reinterpreted as state -- 4. Aspectual characterization -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 17. Diachronic prototypicity and stativity in Spanish physical affection verbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Physical affection verbs: Semantic and syntactic characterization -- 3. Aspectuality and states -- 3.1 General characterization of states -- 4. Prototypicity and stativity -- 4.1 Aspectual characterization and analysis of physical affection uncontrolled transitory states -- 5. Conclusions -- Textual sources -- References -- 18. Negative imperatives with Spanish copulas ser and estar -- 1. Introduction: Drawing the boundaries -- 2. Moving boundaries: Imperatives with ser and estar -- 2.1 Behavior predicates -- 2.2 Controlled states -- 2.3 Emotional states -- 3. Imperative: Far away, so close -- 3.1 Negative imperative: Negation, subjunctive and information structure -- 4. Negative imperatives with ser and estar -- 4.1 Behavior predicates -- 4.2 Controlled states -- 4.3 Emotional states -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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