Author, as appears in the article.: Royo, Carles

Department: Filologia Catalana

URV's Author/s: Royo Bieto, Carles

Keywords: Verb alternation Three-argument sentence Psychological verb Interessar Causative sentence

Abstract: The verb interessar (to interest) has a rich syntactic flexibility that allows it to take part in a wide range of verb alternations. It has a causative verbal meaning that is unusual within the paradigm of the Catalan psychological verbs, because it can take part in three-argument causative constructions of change of state which do not have Pesetsky's Target/Subject Matter (T/SM) Restriction (1995) (La Meritxell va interessar la Mirk pel teatre [lit.: Meritxell interested Nitria in the theatre]), it resists the use of the verb without the experiencer (La Meritxell va interessar pel teatre [lit.: (??)Meritxell interested in the theatre]) and demands the presence of a prepositional phrase (*La Meritxell va interessar la Artiria: [lit.: *Meritxell interested Nitria]). In addition, alternation with a pronominal verbal meaning differs from the causative alternation of other causative psychological verbs with an experiences object. The lexical specificity and syntactic flexibility of the verb interessar are a challenge in the debate on how to approach the lexicon-syntax interface.

Thematic Areas: Linguistics and language Lingüística general y aplicada Lingüística Language and linguistics Language & linguistics Filosofía Filologías Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Filología hispánica Ciencias humanas Artes

ISSN: 02148188

Author's mail: carles.royo@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0003-3071-0145

Record's date: 2023-02-18

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/caplletra/article/view/15371

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Caplletra (Valencia). (67): 65-91

APA: Royo, Carles (2019). L’accepció causativa del verb "interessar" amb complement preposicional. Caplletra (Valencia), (67), 65-91. DOI: 10.7203/Caplletra.67.15371

Article's DOI: 10.7203/Caplletra.67.15371

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2019

Publication Type: Journal Publications