A different contribution for the analysis of emission verbs
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the behavior of Emission verbs in English. Given their heterogeneous characteristics (Rodriguez Ramalle, 2006) and complexity, these verbs represent a challenge. Emission verbs (Levin, 1993; Levin & Rappaport, 1995; Milivojevic, 2016) have been studied...
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Facultad de Lenguas
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ReCIT/article/view/34777 |
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| Sumario: | The purpose of this paper is to analyze the behavior of Emission verbs in English. Given their heterogeneous characteristics (Rodriguez Ramalle, 2006) and complexity, these verbs represent a challenge. Emission verbs (Levin, 1993; Levin & Rappaport, 1995; Milivojevic, 2016) have been studied and analyzed through numerous lexical approaches in which, due to their polysemy, they are given several entries in the lexicon. Following the line of reasoning from these approaches, emission verbs are classified on account of their variable behavior. Seen from a syntactic perspective, particularly, from the concepts of the Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz, 1993), we suggest that the syntactic structures in which verbs appear, in other words, the syntactic context, determines the meaning of these verbs; hence, their interpretation depends on the structure in which they appear and the double entries are not necessary. To present our findings, we base our research on light, substance and sound emission verbs. When these verbs appear in syntactic structures in which there are prepositional phrases, their behavior relates to an unaccusative structure linked to resultative structures. |
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