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Lability in Western Peninsular Spanish

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Journal title

Studia Linguistica

Year
2019
Volumen
73
Número
2
Páginas
203–247
Synopsis

[Resumen extraído de la fuente original]

The western variety of Peninsular Spanish possesses a type of causative construction in which an intransitive lexeme is used transitively. This phenomenon, called lability, is attested in three specific verbs: caer (‘to fall’), quedar (‘to stay’) and entrar (‘to enter’). As a consequence, they can induce a direct object at the expense of the standard forms tirar (‘to throw’), dejar (‘to leave’) and meter (‘to put in’). Lability has not been studied in depth for Spanish and, with this paper, I attempt to pinpoint its current extension as well as the possible semantic factors that prompt the transitivisation of these verbs.

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10/14/2019 - 22:08