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Griffin, Elaine Hunter.

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(In)definiteness and monovalent verbs in Spanish.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	(In)definiteness and monovalent verbs in Spanish./
Author:	Griffin, Elaine Hunter.
Description:	359 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-03, Section: A, page: 8430.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-03A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9726751
ISBN:	9780591357790

(In)definiteness and monovalent verbs in Spanish.
Griffin, Elaine Hunter.

(In)definiteness and monovalent verbs in Spanish. - 359 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-03, Section: A, page: 8430.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Carolina, 1997.

This dissertation explores the cross-linguistic implications of syntactic and semantic relationships between nonovalent verbs and their (in)definite arguments in Spanish. Although unergative and unaccusative verbs in French and Italian are overtly set apart as separate intransitive classes by their auxiliaries and by the Definiteness Restriction (DR) imposed on postverbal arguments of unaccusatives, Spanish lacks both types of differentiation. Several syntactic tests are administered to a corpus of Spanish intransitives in order to identify a set of unaccusative verbs. Because these diagnostics point to the underlying object status of unaccusative arguments, unergative verbs invariably fail the tests.

ISBN: 9780591357790Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

(In)definiteness and monovalent verbs in Spanish.
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520 $a This dissertation explores the cross-linguistic implications of syntactic and semantic relationships between nonovalent verbs and their (in)definite arguments in Spanish. Although unergative and unaccusative verbs in French and Italian are overtly set apart as separate intransitive classes by their auxiliaries and by the Definiteness Restriction (DR) imposed on postverbal arguments of unaccusatives, Spanish lacks both types of differentiation. Several syntactic tests are administered to a corpus of Spanish intransitives in order to identify a set of unaccusative verbs. Because these diagnostics point to the underlying object status of unaccusative arguments, unergative verbs invariably fail the tests.
520 $a Belletti's (1988) claim that unaccusatives can assign only inherent partitive Case to their arguments is rejected, because it cannot account for Spanish unaccusative verbs, which do not impose a DR on their postverbal arguments. An expletive-associate relationship with cross-linguistic variation of the features shared between expletives and arguments can better explain agreement phenomena and the distribution of (in)definite arguments of unaccusatives in French, Italian, English, and Spanish.
520 $a Existential haber and other stative verbs do not demonstrate the behavior of either unergatives or unaccusatives. It is claimed that haber's arguments are generated in the Spec VP position, but are licensed for inherent accusative Case. The Minimalist Program framework accounts for the V NP word order, as well as the dialectal V NP agreement variant.
520 $a The DR on the arguments of haber is attributed to its semantic content. A modification of Heim's (1982) file change semantics model, in conjunction with the type/token distinction, can adequately explain the DR phenomenon.
520 $a Finally, the restricted distribution of (-determiner) NPs is analyzed. It is found that the inability of (-determiner) NPs to carry a token index prevents them from appearing in certain positions where they do not meet agentivity requirements.
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