Enjoy life or enjoy from life. Is the alternation between direct regime and prepositional regime a diathesis phenomenon?

  • Blanca Elena Sanz Martin Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
  • Cristina Eslava Heredia Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0170-4838
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17710/tep.2017.3.1.2sanzmartineheredia
Keywords: antipassive diathesis, alternation of regimen, individuation, event completion, aspect

Abstract

The present work analyzes the verbs disfrutar, necesitar and cuidar, which show an alternation between the direct and the prepositional regimen. These verbs are semantically different, but given that the phenomenon belongs to a very small group of verbs, the aim of this work is to analyze them in order to discover transversal factors for all the group. The initial purpose is to establish the factors that conditions the alternation. Also, data are analiyzed with parameters of the antipassive diathesis. These data derive from qualitative and quantitative analysis of the contexts appearing in the corpus.

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Author Biographies

Blanca Elena Sanz Martin, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes

Blanca Elena Sanz Martin is a lecturer and researcher at the Depto. of Letters of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (Mexico). Her main lines of research revolve around syntax and semantics in the Spanish language. She has been the author of several articles and book chapters published in Mexico, Latin America and Europe, as well as the book El proceso de auxiliarización del verbo tener. From possession to appearance. She is currently responsible for the research project "Lexicon content, argument structure and syntactic realization of the verb ver".

Cristina Eslava Heredia, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes

Cristina Eslava Heredia is a lecturer at the Department of Letters of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico. Her field of research is historical syntax and she is the author of the book Verbs of movement in the Spanish Alfonsí (Universidad autónoma de Aguascalientes, 2013). He has published works on the verbs of movement and prepositional alternation in the history of Peninsular Spanish and Mexico. Currently, he is responsible for the project "Syntactic-semantic characterization of the verbs of thought in the history of Spanish".

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Published
01-06-2017
How to Cite
Sanz Martin, B., & Eslava Heredia, C. (2017). Enjoy life or enjoy from life. Is the alternation between direct regime and prepositional regime a diathesis phenomenon?. Texts in Process, 3(1), 23-48. https://doi.org/10.17710/tep.2017.3.1.2sanzmartineheredia
Issue
Vol 3 No 1 (2017)
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Working papers

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