Lexical agreement processes: on the construction of verbal aspect

• Autores: Elena de Miguel Aparicio
• Localización: Verb Classes and Aspect / coord. por Elisa Barrajón López, José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia, Susana Rodríguez Rosique, 2015, ISBN 978-90-272-4015-6, págs. 131-152
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper examines the construction of verbal aspect as a sub-case of generation of verbal lexical meaning. The analysis is based on Pustejovsky's (1995) Generative Lexicon and assumes the existence of a set of lexical agreement processes that match the lexical features of arguments (and adjuncts) with the information contained in the meta-entry of the verb in the mental lexicon. Verbal meta-entries include distinct sub-structures, among them the Event Structure, which is composed of different phases or sub-events. The materialization of some subevents or others depends on the agreement processes triggered by the arguments and adjuncts and gives rise to different aspectual meanings for the same verb.