SUÁREZ CEPEDA SONIA GRISELDA
Capítulos de libros
Título:
Spanish Clitic "se" as a telic marker
Autor/es:
SONIA SUÁREZ CEPEDA; FRANCISCO JOSÉ FRANCISCO VAL; FRANCISCO FERNÁNDEZ APARICIO
Libro:
Knowledge, Language and Communication
Editorial:
Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza
Referencias:
Lugar: Zaragoza; Año: 2003; p. 80 - 106
Resumen:
Abstract
This article analyzes the compositional nature of aspectual properties of a sentence providing a brief review of the semantics of the aspectual constraint, namely, the measuring-out constraint. It refers to how the aspectual notion of change-over-time has been analyzed in event semantics. It discusses the definition of ?delimitedness? in event semantics as depending on the nature of the verb and on the features of the object [+specific] that makes it eligible to ?measure-out? the event expressed by the verb.
Then, it reviews how telic constraints can vary crosslinguistically and presents a detailed analysis of the Spanish telic reflexive se construction and the compositionalproperty of the predicate that can be represented syntactically in the functional category AspP. For the purposes of the study, the English verbal particles and Spanish telic se are compared as two different ways of encoding telicity to conclude that both languages have Aktionsart aspectual markers in transitive sentences with verbs of accomplishment with different features. The feature [+telic] is strong in Spanish, whereas [+measure] is strong in English.
This article analyzes the compositional nature of aspectual properties of a sentence providing a brief review of the semantics of the aspectual constraint, namely, the measuring-out constraint. It refers to how the aspectual notion of change-over-time has been analyzed in event semantics. It discusses the definition of ?delimitedness? in event semantics as depending on the nature of the verb and on the features of the object [+specific] that makes it eligible to ?measure-out? the event expressed by the verb.
Then, it reviews how telic constraints can vary crosslinguistically and presents a detailed analysis of the Spanish telic reflexive se construction and the compositionalproperty of the predicate that can be represented syntactically in the functional category AspP. For the purposes of the study, the English verbal particles and Spanish telic se are compared as two different ways of encoding telicity to conclude that both languages have Aktionsart aspectual markers in transitive sentences with verbs of accomplishment with different features. The feature [+telic] is strong in Spanish, whereas [+measure] is strong in English.
