Estructura sintáctica de las construcciones con verbos parasintéticos de los tipos a-…-ar y en-…-ar

• Main Author: Gabriel Martínez Vera
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 2016-01-01
• Series: Lexis
• Subjects: parasíntesis; cuantización; estructura del evento; afectación; estado resultante
• Online Access: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/16128

I postulate an unitary syntactic structure for constructions with a-…-ar and en-…-ar parasynthetic verbs through four hypothesis: both patterns have a common basic syntactic structure regarding vP and VP, whose heads are CAUSE and BECOME,  respectively; the difference between the patterns lies on, within a scale of affectedness (Beavers 2011), the fact that a-…-ar assigns (compositionally) a result state to the theme, while this does not happen with en-…-ar. I claim that affectedness is a binary operator located higher than vP that quantizes the event determining the specificity of the result state for the object; and the morphological form of the operator is a- (if its value is positive) or en- (if its value is negative).