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In:Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015
Edited by Jonathan E. MacDonald
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 15] 2018
► pp. 11–30

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se-marked directed motion constructions

Anticausatives and figure reflexives

 | University of Wisconsin-Madison
Published online: 14 February 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.15.02arm
Abstract
This paper discusses the descriptive properties of se-marked directed motion constructions typically instantiated by verbs such as caer-se (fall-se), ir-se (go-se) or subir-se (go up-se). I argue that such constructions are surface representations of two distinct underlying syntactic configurations: an anticausative (Schäfer, 2008) and a figure reflexive (Wood, 2014). The anticausative analysis corroborates work on the same topic by Cuervo (2014), Jiménez-Fernández & Tubino (2014) and Pineda (2016) while the figure reflexive analysis is a novel contribution.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Descriptive properties of se with intransitive motion verbs
    • 2.1Directed motion
    • 2.2Culmination
    • 2.3Other restrictions: Agentivity and permanence
  • 3.On the connection between marked anticausatives and directed motion constructions
  • 4.Analysis
    • 4.1Anticausatives and intrinsic reflexives
    • 4.2Figure reflexives
    • 4.3 se-marked directed motion verbs
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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