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Nombres eventivos y voz pasiva en catalán: sobre el uso de per part de (‘por parte de’) en el ámbito nominal
| Title in English | Event nominals and passive voice in Catalan: on the use of 'per part de' in Catalan nominalizations |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper aims to provide some information on the use of per part de as a Preposition introducing Noun Phrase external arguments in Catalan. It is assumed that some Nouns, like Verbs, project an Argument Structure, i.e. DP is seen as parallel to IP. One of these parallelisms concerns the passivization properties. In fact, authors like Picallo (1991) assumed that Nouns can only be analyzed as licensing Argument Structure and having an event reading when they are passive and their Agent is thus introduced by per or per part de. However, these constructions seem to be infrequent in medieval Catalan, which calls into question the preceding assumption. In summary, his paper will provide some evidence so as to prove that, while passivity is not directly linked to eventivity, a passive/active alternation has expanded in Catalan DP domain. |
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