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A new resultative construction in Spanish? A reply to Rodríguez Arrizabalaga

Bigolin, Alessandro; Ausensi Jimenez, Josep (De Gruyter, 2021)

We respond to Rodríguez Arrizabalaga’s recent claim that Spanish shows genuine cases of strong resultative constructions, e.g. Juan apuñaló a Tomás hasta la muerte ‘John stabbed Tom to death’, argued to be equivalent to ...
Agent entailments and the division of labor between functional structure and roots

Ausensi Jimenez, Josep; Yu, Jianrong; Smith, Ryan Walter (Ubiquity Press, 2021)

An influential proposal about the status of a verb’s agent argument maintains they are severed from the verb’s argument structure and introduced as external arguments via functional heads in the syntax (Kratzer 1996). ...
Repetitive presuppositions with again: Un-severing the external argument

Ausensi Jimenez, Josep; Yu, Jianrong; Walter Smith, Ryan (Linguistic Society of America, 2020)

Since Marantz (1984) and Kratzer (1996), it has been widely accepted in the literature on argument structure that agents are introduced as external arguments via a functional head VOICE through secondary predication, using ...

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