| Autor: |
Heles Contreras, Karen Zagona |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
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| Zdroj: |
Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory ISBN: 9783030110055 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-11006-2_2 |
| Popis: |
This paper argues for a Classifier Phrase (CLP) as a functional layer in the Spanish DP. CLP has been proposed independently for other languages as the locus of individuation in nominals, making countable entities from masses. It has also been suggested as a host for dimensional modifiers (Svenonius 2008). We provide evidence that certain participial adjectives in Spanish are licensed as dimensional modifiers. These adjectives are exceptional in that they encode verbal (inchoative) aspect. This feature is shown to play a crucial role in the distribution of these adjectives. Our account of this generalization adopts the aspectual feature [BOUNDARY] of Marin and McNally (2011). Our analysis is that this feature provides a (temporal) value for dimensionality, thereby exceptionally licensing a stage-level reading. We further show that an account along the lines of Larson (1998), Larson and Takahashi (2007), based on a distinction between NP-layer and DP-layer modification, is not viable for the data under consideration. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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