Resultatives and low depictives in English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344257 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josep Ausensi (0000-0002-0193-6594, Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge , Grup de Lingüística Formal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra , Barcelona , Spain, corresponding author), Alessandro Bigolin (0000-0003-4209-4263, Departament de Filologia Catalana , Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 573-604 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlr-2021-2076 |
| OpenAlex | W3217631495 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 51 |
We argue against a purely semantic account of the Unique Path Constraint (Goldberg, Adele. 1991. It can’t go down the chimney up: Paths and the English resultative. In Proceedings of the seventeenth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 368–378.), i.e., the constraint that there can only be one result state in a single clause, and in favor of a syntactic restriction regarding event structure. We propose, following Mateu, Jaume & Víctor Acedo-Matellán. 2012. The manner/result complementarity revisited: A syntactic approach. In M. Cristina Cuervo & Yves Roberge (eds.), The end of argument structure? Syntax and semantics , 209–228. New York: Academic Press, that structurally there can only be one result predicate per clause since the little v head selects for one result predicate as its complement. In order to make our claim, we provide novel data that violate the Unique Path Constraint defined as a semantic constraint. Further, we analyze examples that at first blush pose a problem for the present account as they appear to involve two result phrases, e.g., shot him dead off the horse . We argue, however, that the second result phrase is not syntactically a result, but rather constitutes a case of what Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Josep Ausensi, Josep Maria Fontana & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. forthcoming. Old Spanish resultatives as low depictives. In Chad L. Howe, Timothy Gupton, Margaret Renwick & Pilar Chamorro (eds.), Open romance linguistics 1. Selected papers from the 49th linguistic symposium on romance languages . Berlin: Language Science Press have called low depictives, which join the syntactic derivation through a low applicative head
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |