A microparametric approach on goal of motion constructions: properties of adpositional systems in Romance and Germanic

• Real Puigdollers, Cristina ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

     Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: Catalan journal of linguistics, ISSN-e 2014-9719, ISSN 1695-6885, Vol. 9, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Particles and prepositions), págs. 125-150
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.97
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  • català

    Aquest article explora la idea que les propietats dels sistemes adpositionals poden ser suficients per a explicar la distinció de Talmy entre llengües de marc satèl·lit i de marc verbal. Seguint la idea que les preposicions morfològicament simples en llengües romàniques només són locatives, pro- poso que el domini funcional de la preposició direccional/de trajecte és defectiu i, doncs, ha de ser legitimat per incorporació al verb (de moviment). La incorporació de la preposició, entesa com a trasllat de nucli, impedeix la incorporació de manera, com a cas particular de la condició d’adjunció de Kayne’s (1994). Aquest article ofereix una explicació dels patrons de lexicalització de Talmy des d’una perspectiva no lexicalista, i redueix les diferències tipològiques entre les llengües a propietats específiques dins el domini funcional dels nuclis lèxics.

  • English

    This paper explores the idea that the properties of adpositional systems can suffice to explain the Talmian distinction between satellite and verb framed languages. Following the insight that morphological simple prepositions in Romance languages are only locative, I propose that the functional domain of the directional/path preposition is defective and, hence, has to be licensed via incorporation to the (motion) verb. Prepositional incorporation, understood as head movement, prevents manner incorporation, as a particular case of Kayne’s (1994) condition on adjunction. The paper offers an account for Talmian lexicalization patterns from a non lexicalist perspective, reducing typological differences between languages to specific properties within the functional domain of lexical heads.

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