1st Edition
Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates
By Antonio Fábregas
Copyright 2023
274 Pages
127 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
274 Pages
127 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates provides the first comprehensive and empirically detailed theoretical analysis of the different ways in which Spanish builds verbs from nouns and adjectives.
This book poses questions about the nature of theme vowels, parasynthesis and the structural relation between the three major lexical word classes from within a... Read more
1. Introduction: what a verbalisation is and what we assume in this monograph
2. Theme vowels: a syntactic analysis for Spanish
3. The internal syntactic structure of parasynthesis
4. Deadjectival verbs in -a, parasynthetic or not
5. Denominal verbs in -a, parasynthetic or not
6. Formations in -ecer, parasynthetic or not
7. Verbalisations in -ificar
8. Verbalisations in -ear
9. Verbalisations in -izar
10. Conclusions of this monograph
Index
Biography
Antonio Fábregas is Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (NTNU), Norway.
