Psych verbs in Japanese : Inchoativity and boundary types
Shimoyoshi, Ayumi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Traducció i d'Interpretació i d'Estudis de l'Àsia Oriental)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	Psych(ological) verbs pose a problem to theories about argument realization that assume a uniform and universal mapping between semantic relations and syntactic configurations. A number of attempts try to explain variation in argument structure in terms of the aspectual differences, assuming that the argument realization of a predicate is a reflection of the temporal properties of the predicate to some extent. However, it is challenging to classify psych verbs into any of Vendler's four aspectual classes because of the "inchoativity" of these verbs. In this study, we take the notion of 'boundary' and its different types as relevant semantic components to describe the internal temporal structure of predicates. We demonstrate that Japanese psych verbs are not aspectually homogeneous but include different types of inchoatives. Accordingly, we propose that the argument realizations of psych verbs can be ascribed to the types of the 'boundary' (i. e. left boundary, right = left boundary and its explicitness/implicitness) the predicates denote.
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2019-107861GB-I00 Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia HUM2007-60599 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación FFI2010-15006 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación BES-2011-048355
Note:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Psych verbs ; Argument realization ; Aspect class ; Inchoativity ; Boundary
Published in:	Lingua, Vol. 296 (2023) , p. 103640-25, ISSN 0024-3841

DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103640

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