Arche, Maria J., Fábregas, Antonio and Marín, Rafael (2017) Towards a unified treatment of Spanish copulas. In: Perpiñán, Silvia, Heap, David, Moreno-Villamar, Itziri and Soto-Corominas, Adriana, (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory. Selected Proceedings of LSRL, 11 (44). John Benjamins, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 33-52. ISBN 978-9027203915 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.11.02arc)

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Abstract

This paper sets the basis for a uniform account of the alternation between the two Spanish copulas (ser and estar) in adjectival and passive clauses. While the copular contrast has been attributed to the different properties of adjectives (e.g. individual vs. stage level) and to an eventive vs. resultative stative dichotomy in passives, this work shows that they all behave alike regarding their temporal interpretation. We derive such uniformity from the syntactic properties of the copulas themselves: estar, includes an additional component ser lack that makes everything it merges with stative, with particular temporoaspectual properties.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	The 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, 2-4 May, 2014.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Copulas; Spanish; Ser; Estar; Aspect; Temporal interpretation; Syntax-semantics
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PC Romance languages
Faculty / Department / Research Group:	Faculty of Architecture, Computing & Humanities Faculty of Architecture, Computing & Humanities > Department of Literature, Language & Theatre
Related URLs:	Organisation
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2017 14:36
Selected for GREAT 2016:	None
Selected for GREAT 2017:	GREAT c
Selected for GREAT 2018:	None
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/14696

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