Extraction from gerunds and the internal syntax of verbs

Dados 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 correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume54
Fascículo6
Páginas1307-1354
Data de publicação2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2016-0029
OpenAlexW2551643068
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências 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