Revisiting -ej(ar) verbs in Catalan : argument and event structure
Acedo-Matellán, Víctor (University of Oxford)
Gibert-Sotelo, Elisabeth (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	We explore the properties of the Catalan verbalizing suffix -ej(ar), centering on intransitive verbs. After presenting the rich variety of outputs that this suffix allows, we focus on two generalizations. The first one has to do with the consistent eventive nature of verbs derived with this suffix, even from bases that count as individual-level predicates, like colour adjectives or proper names. Importantly, their eventivity is orthogonal to their dynamic/non-dynamic status. The second one is the robust unergative status of intransitive -ej(ar) vebs. We show that previous work on -ej(ar) has failed to capture these two properties. Adopting a Ramchandian, nanosyntactic perspective, we propose that this suffix is the spellout of the subeventive structure of a caused process, i. e. , the heads Init and Proc. The (non-)dynamic interpretation of the verbs is claimed to emerge from interactions among the contents of the roots involved in the predicate, at the conceptual, non-grammatical level. We finally extend the proposed analysis to account for the behaviour of transitive -ej(ar) verbs.
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación IJC2020-042785-I Agencia Estatal de Investigación FJC2018-035901-I Agencia Estatal de Investigación FFI2017-87140-C4-2-P Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-165
Note:	Acknowledgments. Víctor Acedo-Matellán acknowledges funding from John Fell OUP Research Fund, University of Oxford (project E1D00080, reference 0006710), and the Leverhulme Trust (International Fellowship IF-2021-26). Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo acknowledges funding from the fellowships Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación IJC2020-042785-I (MCIN / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 and NextGenerationEU/PRTR) and Juan de la Cierva-Formación FJC2018-035901-I (MICIU / AEI), from the projects FFI2017-87140-C4-2-P and FFI2016-80142-P (MINECO, Spanish Government), from the 2017-SGR-165 Research Group on Language and Linguistics - ROLLING (AGAUR, Catalan Government), and from the grant 2021PFR-URV-72 (URV Program for Fostering Research).
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Verbalizing suffixes ; Catalan ; Argument structure ; Event structure ; Neoconstructionism ; Qualia structure
Published in:	Isogloss, Vol. 8 Núm. 4 (2022) , p. 1-28 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v8-n4-acedomatellan-gibertsotelo
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/isogloss/article/view/v8-n4-acedomatellan-gibertsotelo
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.166

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