A FORMAL SEMANTICS FOR BRAZILIAN PEJORATIVES.pdf

SignGram Blueprint, 2017

2002

Synthese, 2022

Borealis - An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018

The most productive way to encode ablative, privative, and reversative meanings in current Catalan and Spanish is by means of des- prefixation. This paper investigates how these related values are obtained both from a structural and from a conceptual perspective. To analyze the structural behaviour of these predicates, a new neoconstructionist model is adopted: Nanosyntax, according to which lexical items are syntactic constructs. As for the conceptual content associated to these verbs, it is accounted for by means of a non-canonical approach to the Generative Lexicon Theory developed by Pustejovsky (1995 ff.). The core proposal is that des- prefixed verbs with an ablative, a privative, or a reversative value share the same syntactic structure, and that the different interpretations emerge as a consequence of the interactions generated, at a conceptual level, between the Qualia Structure of the verbal root and that of the internal argument of the verb.

2011

Functional Structure in DP and IP. The Cartography of …, 2002

2001

Resumen Este trabajo se encuadra dentro de un proyecto de extracción de relaciones léxico-semánticas a partir del análisis de un diccionario monolingüe, y se centra en las relaciones existentes entre las palabras derivadas y sus raíces. En el estudio se incluyen tres sufijos con una sola interpretación y otros 3 sufijos con más de una interpretación.