A Prototype Analysis of Spanish Indeterminate Reflexive Constructions  

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Turley, L. W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 2 (1998), page 137-162.
Fulltext: 20_02_Turley.pdf (1.69MB)

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Like nearly all Romance dialects, Spanish has an indeterminate reflexive construction, traditionally known as the 'impersonal reflexive', whose hallmarks are the lack of grammatical subject and an understood genetic chief human participant. Yet many Romance reflexive constructions meeting the criterion of indeterminacy are subject-bearing, while subjectless passives may refer to definite understood subjects. A prototype analysis allows these peripheral types to be included within the category of indeterminates. The key feature of the prototype is the generieity of the implied human participant, while the remaining prototypical features (intransitive predicate, gnomieity, imperfeetive aspect, atelic Aktionsart, deontic or dynamic modality, negation) serve to reinforce generieity.

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