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Acknowledgements My first debt is to my supervisors Montse Capdevila Batet i Jaume Mateu Fontanals. I would like to thank them for their guidance, advice and valuable criticisms. I also wish to thank Jaume Mateu for proofreading my work. Thanks also to Mireia Llinàs i Grau and Maria Josep Solé who read the proposal and provided comments and criticisms that resulted in some changes. Special thanks to Generalitat de Catalunya for giving me the opportunity to start working on the topic of this dissertation at University College London and continue it at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona by providing me with the Beca Batista Roca i Beca Predoctoral de Formació d’Investigadors that partially funded this dissertation. My stay at UCL greatly benefited me. I owe special thanks to Ad Neeleman from the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics of UCL whose interest in and enthusiasm for morphology decided the topic of this thesis. I am also grateful to him for his guidance and valuable criticisms in the first stages of this study. All my subjects also deserve a special mention for their invaluable judgments. My results (from the dictionaries) could not have been corroborated without them. Some material of this work has been presented at the CamLing 2004 conference and at the 2005 BIDE Student Conference in Linguistics. I am grateful to the audiences for their questions and comments. Finally, I would like to express my deepest thanks to my family, especially, my parents Josep and Dolors, my husband David, and my sisters and brothers Dolo, Miquel, Josep, Montse, Elisabet and Carolina. Their love, support and encouragement were essential to me. ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS……………………………………………………………iii 1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..1 2 Theoretical Background…………………………………………………………….. 6 2.1 Reinhart’s theta system……………………………………………………………... 6 2.2 Two analyses of reflexives: unergative vs. unaccusative………………………….. 9 2.3 Θ-percolation and inheritance……………………………………………………. .10 2.4 On parasynthetic structures………………………………………………………...12 2.4.1 Definition....................................................................................................12 2.4.2 Constituents in parasynthetic constructions................................................13 2.4.2.1 A discontinuous affix…………………………………………...13 2.4.2.2 Two constituents………………………………………………..14 2.4.2.3 Three (or four) constituents……………………………………..15 3 Research Methods…………………………………………………………………...20 4 Data Analysis and Discussion………………………………………………………23 4.1 Catalan data………………………………………………………………………...23 4.1.1 V-to-V prefixation………………………………………………………..23 4.1.2 A-to-V prefixation………………………………………………………..26 4.1.3 N-to-V prefixations……………………………………………………….29 4.2 English data………………………………………………………………………...34 4.2.1 V-to-V prefixation………………………………………………………..35 4.2.2 A-to-V prefixation………………………………………………………..37 4.2.3 N-to-V prefixation………………………………………………………..41 4.3 Discussion…………………………………………………………………………..46 5 Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………..54 Appendix A…………………………………………………………….………………57 Appendix B……………………..……………………………………….……………..83 Appendix C…………......……………………………………………………………..90 References......................................................................................................................95 iii
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5 CONCLUSIONS In this thesis, I con
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Intermediate Vs which have meanings
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Appendix C This appendix includes t
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Results: English questionnaire When
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Results: Catalan questionnaire Of a
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Di Sciullo, A. M. 1997. “Prefixed
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Marantz, A. 1997. “No Escape from
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Varela, S. (ed.). 1993. La formaci
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