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      LA ALTERNANCIA CAUSATIVA Y SU INTERACCIÓN CON ARGUMENTOS DATIVOS Translated title: THE CAUSATIVE ALTERNATION AND ITS INTERACTION WITH DATIVE ARGUMENTS

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          Este trabajo investiga la alternancia causativa y su compatibilidad con diversos tipos de argumentos dativos. Se desarrolla un análisis constructivista de la alternancia según el cual tanto la construcción transitiva causativa (Pablo rompióla radió) como la intransitiva incoativa (Se rompió la radió) son construcciones igualmente complejas, bi-eventivas, que comparten el estado resultante (la radio rota) y se diferencian por el tipo de evento superior. Se propone que existen dos tipos de predicados transitivos (causativos y simples -no causativos) y dos tipos de predicados inacusativos (incoativos y simples) que participan en construcciones sintácticas distintas y, por derivación, diferenciadas semánticamente. La propuesta ilumina el análisis de los argumentos dativos y permite dar cuenta de contrastes sistemáticos en las propiedades sintácticas y semánticas de argumentos dativos con verbos transitivos e inacusativos simples, por un lado, y causativos e incoativos, por el otro. Se muestra cómo la interacción entre los dos análisis ilumina la relación entre sintaxis y semántica.

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          This paper focuses on the causative alternation and its compatibility with various types of dative arguments. I develop a novel constructivist analysis of the alternation, by which both the transitive causative and the unaccusative inchoative variants (Pablo broke the radio; The radio broke) are equally complex bi-eventive constructions. The resulting state (the broken radió) is shared by the two configurations while the higher sub-event distinguishes between the two. I argue that there exist two kinds of transitive predicates (causative and simple -non-causative) and two kinds of unaccusatives (inchoative and simple) which take part in distinct syntactic structures and, therefore, have different semantics. The proposal is able to account for systematic syntactic and semantic differences among dative arguments in simple transitive and unaccusative constructions, on the one hand, and causative and inchoative, on the other. The interaction between these two proposals sheds light on the relationship between syntax and semantics.

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                Journal
                rla
                RLA. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada
                RLA
                Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte (Concepción, , Chile )
                0718-4883
                2008
                : 46
                : 1
                : 55-79
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameUniversity of Toronto Canadá mc.cuervo@ 123456utoronto.ca
                Article
                S0718-48832008000100004 S0718-4883(08)04600104
                7c620fde-c169-495c-80da-b6027e04a4d8

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 14 March 2008
                : 10 December 2007
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 25, Pages: 25
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                español,estructura argumental,alternancia,aplicativos,dativos,transitividad,Causativos, incoativos,Spanish,argument structure,applicative,dative,transitivity,inchoatives,Causatives

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