Processing non-culminating accomplishments in European Portuguese

• Zhang, Zichen ^[1] ; Leal, António ; Juliana Novo Gomes
  1. [1] Universidade Do Porto

     Universidade Do Porto

     Santo Ildefonso, Portugal

     
• Localización: Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, ISSN-e 2385-4138, Vol. 11, Vol. 7, 2025 (Ejemplar dedicado a: RLLT26, Selected papers from Going Romance 38, Universidade do Minho)
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.572
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  • This paper investigates the processing and interpretation of non-culmination sentences and subjects’ agentivity in European Portuguese. A five-point Likert scale is employed to test the native speaker’s judgment regarding the acceptability of five types of non-culminating accomplishment sentences put forward in Guéron and Vogeleer (2021), providing evidence that speakers accept non-culminating accomplishments to a certain extent, albeit acceptance differs depending on the circumstance. Furthermore, while the subject’s agentivity does have some bearing on the acceptability rating, it does not appear to be a requirement for non-culminating accomplishments in European Portuguese. A self-paced reading experiment also shows processing differences amongst five types of non-culminating accomplishments and that subject agentivity does not affect processing time.

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