morphological? - KOPS - Universität Konstanz

Other verb classes
• Unaccusative verbs
(19) La segunda mitad del siglo ... está marcada por [ el surgir de una nueva escuela
literaria ]. [CdE]
'The second half of the century is marked by the emerging of a new literary school.'
• Telic transitive verbs
(20) Se cerró la puerta, se corrió una barra y se escuchó [ el cerrar de un candado ]. [CdE]
'A door was closed, a bar moved and one heard the closing of a padlock.'
• Atelic transitive verbs
(21) oyéndose ... [ el arrastrar de la silla por el piso ]. [CdE]
'hearing ... the dragging of a chair through the apartment'
• In the 20th century examples with transitive verbs are very rare in the corpus.
• In previous centuries the preference for unergative verbs is is less pronounced, cf. (22)
and (23).
• Telic transitive verbs
(22) en [ el sembrar del pan ] es neçesaria la presençia y vista del señor [CdE] (15th)
'in sowing the bread the presence and gaze of the lord is necessary'
• Psychological verbs
(23) ... el poeta comprende [ el sentir y el pensar del público ] [CdE] (1864)
'The poet understands the feeling and thinking of the audience.'
2.2 Nominal infinitive with direct object [=construction 2]
2.2.1 Syntactic distribution
The Infinitive
• governs syntactic constituents that refer to participants of the denoted event
• governs a direct object (like a verb)
• but no (nominative) subject (unlike a finite verb)
(24) Es una necesidad ... [ el ampliar los espaciosObj de participación para las mujeres ].
[CdE]
'Enlarging the spaces of participation for women is a necessity.'
Comparable to English verbal gerunds with possessor and direct object
(25) Everyone was impressed by [ Pat's artfully folding the napkins ]. (Malouf 2000:134)
Determiners
• The definite article is most frequent
(26) [ el ampliar los espaciosObj de participación para las mujeres ]. [CdE]
'the enlarging the spaces of participation for women'
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