Abstract

CAUSATIVIZATION ESTRETEGIES IN SPANISH. Lingüística [online]. 2013, vol.29, n.2, pp.231-269. ISSN 2079-312X.

In this paper, I describe and compare processes that add a causative event to a predicate, i.e., the ways in which the verbs are causativized in Spanish. My hypothesis is that causativization in Spanish, as a syntactic process, results in two configurations: one analytic (e.g., El mago hizo desaparecer al conejo.) and the other synthetic (e.g., El mago desapareció al conejo.), both active and productive in the language. In turn, these two configurations differ from other processes that increase the number of the verb’s syntactic arguments, such as transitivization (e.g. A Juan lo caminaron), not only in their dialectal distribution but also in the structural position of the added argument (Zdrojewski 2007). The differences between these two forms of causativization are accounted here, following Pylkkänen (2008), by determining the type of causative morpheme active in Spanish

Keywords : Analytic causativization; Synthetic causativization; Spanish.

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