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

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• dc.contributor.author Bigolin, Alessandro
• dc.contributor.author Ausensi Jiménez, Josep
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-08T06:55:47Z
• dc.date.available 2022-03-08T06:55:47Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract 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 the English construction with the PP to death. This claim is theoretically relevant as it challenges the verb-framed behavior of Spanish with respect to Talmy’s typology. Adopting a constructivist view of argument structure, we argue that Spanish hasta la muerte and English to death constructions of this type involve two completely distinct syntactic configurations, and that only the English to death PP can be regarded as a resultative phrase. We claim that the Spanish hasta PP is syntactically computed as an adjunct external to the argument structure of the predicate and provides a boundary to the predicate it merges with. We thus show that the Spanish construction with hasta la muerte fully conforms to the class of Talmy’s verb-framed languages in that this type of construction is expected to be fully available and productive in this class of languages.
• dc.description.sponsorship The first author acknowledges financial support from a Formación de Personal Investigador (FPI) grant from the 542 Bigolin and Ausensi Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades) and the European Social Fund, within the project Redes de variación microparametricas en las lenguas románicas (PIs: Ángel Gallego and Jaume Mateu) from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (FFI2017-87140-C4-1-P). The second author acknowledges financial support from the project Connecting Conceptual and Referential Models of Meaning 2 (CONNECT 2) (PI: Louise McNally) from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (FFI2016-76045-P;AEI/MINEICO/FEDER, UE) and from an ICREA Academia award to Louise McNally.
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• dc.identifier.citation Bigolin A, Ausensi J. A new resultative construction in Spanish? A reply to Rodríguez Arrizabalaga. FoL. 2021;55(2):517-46. DOI: 10.1515/flin-2021-2078
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/flin-2021-2078
• dc.identifier.issn 0165-4004
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52642
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher De Gruyter
• dc.relation.ispartof Folia Linguistica. 2021;55(2):517-46
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2016-76045-P
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/FFI2017-87140-C4-1-P
• dc.rights © 2021 Alessandro Bigolin and Josep Ausensi, published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword English
• dc.subject.keyword Resultative constructions
• dc.subject.keyword Small clause
• dc.subject.keyword Spanish
• dc.subject.keyword Talmy’s typology
• dc.subject.keyword Verb/satellite-framed languages
• dc.title A new resultative construction in Spanish? A reply to Rodríguez Arrizabalaga
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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