Behavior adjectives : Dynamic, agentive and unergative

Paykin-Arroues, Katia; Tayalati, Fayssal

Type de document :

Partie d'ouvrage

Titre :

Behavior adjectives : Dynamic, agentive and unergative

Auteur(s) :

Paykin-Arroues, Katia [Auteur]

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Tayalati, Fayssal [Auteur]

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Éditeur(s) ou directeur(s) scientifique(s) :

Chiyo Nishida and Cinzia Russi

Titre de l’ouvrage :

Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World

Date de publication :

2012-01

ISBN :

9789042035591

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

unergative
aspect
behavior adjectives
dynamic
agentive
French.

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

Résumé en anglais : [en]

This paper examines the question of aspect with relation to adjectives. We argue that there exists a set of adjectives in French that exhibit linguistic properties similar to those of dynamic verbs, like imprudent ‘careless’ ...
Lire la suite >This paper examines the question of aspect with relation to adjectives. We argue that there exists a set of adjectives in French that exhibit linguistic properties similar to those of dynamic verbs, like imprudent ‘careless’ or méchant ‘mean’. All dynamic adjectives take a syntactic subject interpreted as “agent” and are unergative. We support our claim by showing that behavior adjectives pass the same tests as their verbal counterparts. Subsequently, we propose that French behavior adjectives and non behavior adjectives are syntactically different in that the former type projects into syntax as an aP whose head, a, takes an AP as its complement, whereas the latter simply projects as an AP.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

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