Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates

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1 Introduction: what a verbalisation is and what we assume in this monograph
1.1 Verbalisations: the basics
1.2 Main verb types
1.2.1 Base-verbalisation relation
1.2.2 Verb types: Aktionsart and argument structure
1.2.3 The decomposition of lexical verbs
1.3 Nanosyntax and spell out
1.3.1 Primitive elements
1.3.2 Phrasal spell out
1.3.3 The exhaustive lexicalisation principle
1.3.4 The superset principle
1.4 Nouns, adjectives and prepositions
1.4.1 Nouns vs. adjectives
1.4.2 Prepositions
1.4.3 Adjectives are built as prepositional phrases in Spanish
1.4.4 Exponency: adjectival exponents are bigger than nominal exponents
1.5 Main claims in this monograph
2 Theme vowels: a syntactic analysis for Spanish
2.1 Overview of the chapter
2.2 Theme vowels: problems and restrictions
2.2.1 Theme vowels: problems for morphological analysis
2.2.2 Toward a syntactic solution: Kayne (2019)
2.2.3 Theme vowels as manifestations of EventP
2.3 Verb, but no theme vowel: copulative verbs
2.4 The auxiliary verb haber as the theme vowel
2.5 Theme vowels without verbs
2.5.1 Theme vowels with denominal -dor
2.5.2 Theme vowels with denominal -ble
3 The internal syntactic structure of parasynthesis
3.1 Overview of the chapter
3.2 A natural syntactic hierarchy for lexical categories
3.2.1 The hierarchy in (prototypical) syntax
3.2.2 The hierarchy applied to category change: structure extension vs. subordination
3.2.2.1 Comparing V > N with N > V
3.2.2.2 Comparing A > N with N > A
3.2.2.3 Comparing V > A with A > V
3.3 Parasynthesis as syntactic specification
3.3.1 What parasynthesis does, in action
3.3.2 Parasynthesis is only attested in hierarchically compliant category-change
3.3.3 Asymmetries between denominal and deverbal parasynthesis
4 Deadjectival verbs in -a, parasynthetic or not
4.1 Overview of the chapter
4.2 Deadjectival parasynthetic verbs in -a are always change of state verbs
4.2.1 Change of state verbs as a natural class
4.2.2 The aspectual properties of deadjectival change of state verbs
4.2.3 The causative-inchoative alternation and the internal argument
4.2.4 Properties of the prefixes
4.3 Analysis: parasynthetic change of state verbs
4.3.1 The material spelled out by the adjectival exponent
4.3.2 The role of PredP and the integration between the adjective and the verbal structure
4.3.3 The aspectual interpretations
4.3.4 PredP as a preposition: additional evidence
4.3.5 The linearisation of the prefix
4.3.6 Where is the verbaliser? On the nature of verbal formations with -a and a prefix
4.4 Prefix-less deadjectival verbs with plain -a
4.4.1 Non parasynthetic deadjectival change of state verbs in -a
4.4.2 Deadjectival verbs in -a involving change of state not predicated from an internal argument
4.4.3 Deadjectival verbs in -a: stative property
4.5 Conclusions
5 Denominal verbs in -a, parasynthetic or not
5.1 Overview of the chapter
5.2 Denominal verbs in -a: change of state verbs and other predicate relations
5.2.1 Parasynthetic denominal formations
5.2.2 Non parasynthetic verbs in -a
5.2.2.1 Change of state readings
5.2.2.2 Stative verbs
5.3 Parasynthetic denominal verbs in -a with participant readings (1): locative verbs
5.3.1 The properties of the base
5.3.2 Properties of the prefixes
5.3.3 Aspect
5.3.4 Analysis
5.3.4.1 Locatio and locatum correspond to the same structure
5.3.4.2 Lexically strong prefixes
5.3.5 Non parasynthetic locative verbs in -a
5.4 Parasynthetic denominal verbs in -a with participant readings (2): transfer verbs, possessive verbs and other stative verbs
5.4.1 Possessive verbs as stative transfer verbs
5.4.2 Transfer verbs without a prefix
5.5 Denominal verbs in -a with participant readings (3): instrumental verbs
5.5.1 Parasynthetic verbs
5.5.2 Prefix-less instrumental verbs
5.6 Non parasynthetic denominal verbs in -a: creation verbs and other readings
5.6.1 Creation and activity performance verbs
5.6.2 Other interpretations
5.7 Interim summary: parasynthesis vs. non parasynthesis in the absence of overt verbalisers
6 Verbalisations in -ecer, parasynthetic or not
6.1 Overview of the chapter
6.2 The suffix -ec-e and its problems
6.3 Deadjectival formations
6.3.1 Syntactic properties
6.3.2 Aspectual properties
6.3.3 Analysis
6.4 Denominal formations
6.4.1 Change of state formations
6.4.2 Transfer verbs, parasynthetic
6.4.3 Prefix-less verbs
6.5 Does -ec- appear in non derived verbs?
6.6 Conclusions
7 Verbalisations in -ificar
7.1 Overview of the chapter
7.2 Deadjectival verbalisations with -ific-
7.2.1 Main properties
7.2.2 Aspectual and argument structure properties
7.3 Denominal verbalisations with -ific-
7.4 Conclusions
8 Verbalisations in -ear
8.1 Overview of the chapter
8.2 Change of state formations and atelic quality readings
8.2.1 Change of state verbs
8.2.2 Property exhibiting verbs
8.3 Manner of behaving verbs
8.4 Instrumental readings and other less frequent readings
8.4.1 Instrumental readings
8.4.2 Locative
8.4.3 Emission verbs
8.4.4 Other activity readings
8.4.5 Parasynthetic verbs
8.5 A note on the relation of -e-a with verbal interfixes
8.6 Variation, -e-a and -a
9 Verbalisations in -izar
9.1 Overview of the chapter
9.2 Deadjectival formations
9.2.1 Change of state formations
9.2.2 The morphophonology of -iz-
9.2.3 Proposal
9.3. Nominal bases without a prefix
9.3.1 Change of state verbs
9.3.2 Attributive readings
9.3.3 Manner readings
9.3.4 Instrumental verbs
9.3.5 Locatio
9.3.6 Locatum and transfer
9.3.7 Possessive verbs
9.3.8 Created object and other readings
9.4 Parasynthetic verbs
9.5 Conclusions
10 Conclusions of this monograph
10.1 Relevant grammatical verb classes
10.2 How verbal suffixes are differentiated
10.3 The direction of productivity in word formation
10.4 Verbalisers, theme vowels and copulative verbs
10.5 The role of the lexicon
10.6 Why is parasynthesis typical of only some languages?
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