A First-Phase Syntax Approach to Grammaticalization: Evidence from the Spanish Pseudo-Copula “Quedar(se)”

The pseudo-copula quedar(se) <‘end up’ + adjective> in Spanish is used as a test field to understand how the pressures ensuing from the loss of non-syntactic semantic information can be the trigger for changes in a verb’s argument structure information. Using data from corpora, we explore how...

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Published in:	Catalan journal of linguistics Vol. 23; p. 135
Main Authors:	Diana Gómez Vázquez, Mateu, Jaume
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Barcelona Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions 01-01-2024
Subjects:	Aktionsart Argument structure Copulas Corpus analysis Grammaticalization Semantics Spanish language Syntactic phases Syntax Verbs Word meaning
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Summary:	The pseudo-copula quedar(se) <‘end up’ + adjective> in Spanish is used as a test field to understand how the pressures ensuing from the loss of non-syntactic semantic information can be the trigger for changes in a verb’s argument structure information. Using data from corpora, we explore how the grammaticalization process of the pseudo-copula unfolded to yield an aspectual copula devoid of lexical meaning. To that end, we examine the properties of the pseudo-copula in current day Spanish and put forth a First-Phase syntax approach (Ramchand 2008) to its argument structure using her notion of underassociation.
ISSN:	1695-6885 2014-9719
DOI:	10.5565/rev/catjl.450