Edited by Elisa Barrajón López, José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique
This volume offers a variety of perspectives on two of the main topics situated at the crossroads between lexical semantics and syntax, namely: (a) aspect and its correspondence with syntactic structure; and (b) the delimitation of syntactic structures from verb classes. Almost from Aristotle’s… read more
The objective of this paper is to check whether the secondary meliorative or pejorative senses that the morphological gentilic francés [French] has acquired over time, which are also subject to various circumstances (historical, cultural, social, etc.) have affected the meaning of the verb that… read more
This paper has as its aim to examine the way in which the meaning of the derivative base (regardless of its denominal or deadjectival nature, although it will be demonstrated here that it rather follows an adjectival behavior) influences the semantics of verbs coming from gentilicios… read more
Barrajón López, Elisa, José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique 2015 PrefaceVerb Classes and Aspect, Barrajón López, Elisa, José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique (eds.), pp. vii–xvi | Preface
This chapter focuses on meteorological denominal verbs. Besides studying their morphological processes, the argument structure presented by these verbs is analyzed in order to determine which conceptual components are condensed in the lexeme. The chapter then goes on to establish a classification… read more
