Behavior adjectives : Dynamic, agentive and unergative

Paykin-Arroues, Katia; Tayalati, Fayssal

Document type :

Partie d'ouvrage

Title :

Behavior adjectives : Dynamic, agentive and unergative

Author(s) :

Paykin-Arroues, Katia [Auteur]

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

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

Scientific editor(s) :

Chiyo Nishida and Cinzia Russi

Book title :

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

Publication date :

2012-01

ISBN :

9789042035591

English keyword(s) :

unergative
aspect
behavior adjectives
dynamic
agentive
French.

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

English abstract : [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’ ...
Show more >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.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

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