Indefinite se vs. Inanimate Subject with Reflexive  

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Lozano, Anthony G. ; Somers, Dale R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 1 (1979), page 124-132.
Fulltext: 01_01_Lozano.pdf (293.3KB)

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According to John Knowles, (A) Se alquila (los) apartarnentos, 'PRO rents (the) apartments', and (B) Se alquilan (los) apartamentos, (The) apartments get rented', do not have a common deep structure. A-types, he observes, always have a singular verb, never occur with por st mismos (or solos) phrases and all have a near paraphrase with uno. B-types have a plural verb with plural NP, cannot ahvays be paraphrased by uno, and a por sfmismos phrase can often be used with a plural NP. He proposes different phrase structure trees which give PRO as subject for A-types and the NP as subject for B-types particularly if the plural noun shows surface agreement with the plural verb. In opposition to Knowles, we propose 1.1 which coincides completely with his type-A: singular verb, paraphrasing of,se with uno. Our 1.2 (Knowles' type-B) never occurs with pot s[ mismos paraphrases. Our hl and 1.2 have the same semantic interpretation: Se venden los coches, 'Cars are sold'. Our 2.0 (some of Knowles' B-types) is really a reflexive with inanimate noun phrase as subject: Se venden los coches por sf mismos, 'The cars sell themselves'. Its meaning is quite distinct from our 1.I /rod 1.2. Lima speech allows either our 1.1 or 1.2 although 1.1 with singular verb is more frequent. On the other hand, only our 1.2 is permitted in Mexico City. Dialect constraints must be considered in the analysis of grammatical structures.

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