Abstract
This paper shows that non-nominal constituents can have intermediate information status (i. e., be neither given nor new). The main idea is that the state denoted by an adjectival secondary predicate can already be evoked by an event denoted by a verb from the preceding context – similar to bridging cases in the nominal domain. For example, the event cry can evoke the state sad just as the event drive can evoke the referent driver. It will be shown that the intermediate information status of secondary predicates can have a perceivable linguistic reflex, namely in the felicitous and infelicitous use of (Spanish) secondary predicates in adversatives. In addition, two ways will be discussed in which the intermediate information status can come about (activation and construal), and it will be shown that both ways apply to nominal and non-nominal constituents alike.
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank Hubert Cuyckens and two anonymous Folia Linguistica referees for their insightful and constructive comments on earlier versions of this article. I also thank Hans Fernández Benítez, Anna Sánchez Rufat, and Francisco Jiménez Calderón for helpful comments on Spanish data. All remaining errors are my own.
Abbreviations
- 1/3
first/third person
- bg
backgrond
- det
determiner
- f
feminine
- foc
focus
- inf
infinitive
- m
masculine
- p
preposition
- pl
plural
- prs
present
- prsp
present participle
- pst
past
- ptcp
participle
- refl
reflexive
- sg
singular
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