Parámetros sintácticos e semánticos das alternancias obxecto/oblicuounha comparación entre os complementos con en do galego e as construcións conativa e antipasiva

  1. Míguez, Vítor 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

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Journal:
Estudos de lingüística galega

ISSN: 1889-2566

Year of publication: 2016

Issue: 8

Pages: 167-185

Type: Article

DOI: 10.15304/ELG.7.3049 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

In a significant number of languages there exist morphosyntactic operations modifying the codification of the transitive second argument so that it is no longer marked as object and is marked instead by a preposition or oblique case. This modification of transitivity has semantic implications, especially concerning the degree of effectiveness of the event expressed by the verb. Although the details of this operation vary in each language, there are clearly identifiable cross-linguistic patterns, of which the principal one is the syntactic and semantic demotion of the second argument. This paper explores the possible alignment of constructions of different languages with the objective of treating them together. For this purpose, it is necessary to filter out the details of particular realization patterns. In this way, each particular construction is shown to be a manifestation of a widespread, more general operation demoting the second participant. This article looks at antipassive and conative alternations and the Galician construction with preposition en, taking into consideration their syntax and semantics and examining their relation to transitivity.

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