Chapter 4. Stative participles

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Chapter 4
Stative participles

Published online: 24 November 2020

Article outline

4.1Introduction
4.2Adjectival passives in Spanish: A state of the art
4.3Comparing predicative and attributive participles
- 4.3.1Change-of-state structure?
- 4.3.2External arguments
- 4.3.3Passives
- 4.3.4Perfect semantics
- 4.3.5Summary of findings
4.4The proposal
- 4.4.1Estar-PPrts
- 4.4.2Bare-PPrts
- 4.4.3Perfective adjectives
4.5 By-phrases and agent/event-oriented modifiers in APass. Beyond Spanish
- 4.5.1State-relevance
- 4.5.2Problems with the state-relevance approach
- 4.5.3Event-kinds and pseudo-incorporation
- 4.5.4Problems with the event-kinds approach
- 4.5.5Where are we?
4.6Crosslinguistic variation
- 4.6.1Permissive languages: An introduction
- 4.6.2Previous accounts
  - 4.6.2.1 Kratzer (2000)
  - 4.6.2.2 Alexiadou et al. (2015)
  - 4.6.2.3Problems with Kratzer (2000)
  - 4.6.2.4Problems with Alexiadou et al. (2015)
- 4.6.3An alternative account
  - 4.6.3.1Option 1: Parametrization of Adj (to be discarded)
  - 4.6.3.2Option 2: StatP and AdjP
4.7Towards a unified theory of participles
4.8Conclusions
Notes