morphological? - KOPS - Universität Konstanz

• Indefinite article
(27) debería darse ... [ un borrar barreras entre el privilegiado estudiante ... y el obrero ... ]
[CdE]
'There should be a wiping out of barriers between the privileged student and the worker'
• Possessives
(28) [ Su limpiar casas ] es la base de su subsistencia.
'His cleaning houses is the basis of his living.'
• Demonstratives
(29) [ aquel negar apoyo y consuelo a las almas atribuladas ] [CdE]
'that denying support and consolation to the tortured souls'
• Infinitive can be modified by adverbs that follow or precede the infinitive
(30) la corrupción es ... [ el utilizar indebidamente el puesto público para hacerse de un
beneficio no legítimo ] [CdE]
'Corruption is unjustly using the public post to obtain an unlawful advantage.'
(31) refleja ... carencia de propuestas y de ideas [ el simplemente asumir la crítica ][CdE]
'Simply to accept the criticism reflects a lack of suggestions and ideas.'
• The infinitive can be modified by a (preposed) adjective
(no examples for this construction are attested in the Corpus del Español).
(32) la corrupción es ... [ el incesante utilizar el puesto público para hacerse de un
beneficio no legítimo ]
'Corruption is the incessant using the public post to obtain an unlawful advantage.'
This construction has both verbal and nominal properties.
(33) a. [el [ [utilizar]V indebidamente [el puesto público]DP ]VP ]DP
b. [el incesante [ [utilizar]V [el puesto público]DP ]VP ]DP
• In nominal infinitives with a direct object a second participant of the denoted event
(the agent or experiencer) can be realized as a prepositional phrase introduced by de,
as in (34) and (35).
• The constructions with a direct object and a de-phrase is rarely attested in the corpus
(34) [ El tomar notas de los agentes de periódicos ] [CdE] molestaba a todos.
'The taking notes of/by the newspaper agents disturbed everyone.'
(35) [ El poner orden de los guardianes del parque ] [CdE] molestaba a todos.
'The tidying up of/by the attendants of the park disturbed everyone.'
2.2.2 Compatibility with verbs of different verb classes
Defining criterion for this class
• presence of direct object (rather than subject)
• Hence, intransitive verbs never belong to this class.
• Telic transitive verbs
(36) [Es] una necesidad ... [ el ampliar los espacios de participación para las mujeres ].
[CdE]
'Enlarging the spaces of participation for women is a necessity.'
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