Extraction from gerunds and the internal syntax of verbs

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3987263
AutoresAndrés Fábregas (0000-0001-9907-5878, UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Antonio Fábregas (Institute of Language and Culture, University of Tromsø-Norway’s Arctic University, 9037 Tromsø, Norway), Ángel L Jiménez-Fernández (0000-0003-3882-0883, Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa), C/ Palos de la Frontera s/n, 41004 Sevilla, Spain, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen54
Número6
Páginas1307-1354
Fecha de publicación2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2016-0029
OpenAlexW2551643068
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas34

This paper provides an analysis of transparent gerunds in Spanish, as in¿Qué llegó [silbandoqué] Juan?'What arrived [whistlingwhat] Juan?', using a decomposition of Aktionsart in a series of syntactic heads. A traditional analysis of these secondary predicates as adjuncts would undermine well-established syntactic principles restricting movement and extraction. We argue that these transparent gerunds should be analyzed as syntactic constituents merged as part of the syntactic projections associated with Aktionsart. More precisely, they qualify as RhemePs - assuming Ramchand's First Phase Syntax system - thus allowing their arguments to be extracted. Well-attested differences between Spanish and English gerunds will be explained in our analysis by proposing that the Spanish gerund projects as PathP (given it carries a path preposition), whereas English gerunds are simply RhemeP (lacking any sort of preposition

Gerund · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Syntax · Verb · Computer Science · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation