The Internal Structure of Perfective Adjectives: States and Blocking
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Antonio Fábregas
Abstract
The goal of this article is to discuss the nature of so-called perfective adjectives in Spanish (desnudo ‘naked,’ suelto ‘loose’). We do so through a discussion of the problem that participles are blocked by perfective adjectives in some contexts (Dejó la habitación {limpia / ∗limpiada} ‘He left the room {clean / ∗cleaned}). We will argue that perfective adjectives contain in their internal structure a StateP that can contextually be interpreted as a result state; this head has morphological, syntactic and semantic effects, and makes the structure spelled out by the perfective adjective identical to the one associated with a small participle, with the result that a principle of lexical economy blocks the participial morphology in situations where only the small participle is allowed.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Nominal predication with estar
- A distinctness approach to clitic combinations in Romance
- Mirativity as Expressive Meaning: The Case of adiós
- The Internal Structure of Perfective Adjectives: States and Blocking
- L2 Acquisition of Spanish VOT by English-Speaking Immigrants in Spain
- The Use of the Glottal Stop as a Variant of /s/ in Puerto Rican Spanish
- On the Gradient Lenition of Spanish Voiced Obstruents: A Look at Onset Clusters
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Nominal predication with estar
- A distinctness approach to clitic combinations in Romance
- Mirativity as Expressive Meaning: The Case of adiós
- The Internal Structure of Perfective Adjectives: States and Blocking
- L2 Acquisition of Spanish VOT by English-Speaking Immigrants in Spain
- The Use of the Glottal Stop as a Variant of /s/ in Puerto Rican Spanish
- On the Gradient Lenition of Spanish Voiced Obstruents: A Look at Onset Clusters
- On the Contrasts Between sí ‘yes’ and sí que ‘yes that’ in Spanish and the Structure of the Complementizer Phrase Domain
