Spanish Verbs of Becoming and Cluster Concepts

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https://doi.org/10.7557/1.12.2.7207

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change of state verbs, cluster concepts, exemplar, copular verbs, similarity

Resumen

El análisis del comportamiento de los verbos de cambio de estado en español (por ejemplo, volverse rico), también conocidos como verbos pseudocopulativos o semicopulativos, ha recibido relativamente poca atención en estudios anteriores. Bybee & Eddington (2006) (B&E) analizan estos verbos empleando un modelo basado en ejemplares, el cual a su vez está basado en la frecuencia y la similitud semántica. Este artículo presenta un análisis de los verbos de cambio de estado basado en la noción de conceptos en cúmulo (Jackendoff 2002, 1983), situados dentro de una escala, como una explicación alternativa a la de B&E, que explica el comportamiento de esta clase de verbos de una manera más amplia y precisa. El presente estudio muestra que existen fuertes tendencias en el uso de adjetivos con un verbo de cambio de estado determinado, que se correlacionan con su uso con los verbos copulativos ser/estar. Un punto clave es que el modelo de conceptos en cúmulo da cuenta de usos de adjetivos que no entran en ninguna agrupación particular en el modelo de B&E. Un estudio de corpus sirve para respaldar el análisis. El presente trabajo representa una contribución original en la medida en que es el único estudio que trata los verbos de cambio de estado utilizando la noción de conceptos en cúmulo.

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2023-11-24

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Benavides, C. (2023). Spanish Verbs of Becoming and Cluster Concepts. Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 12(2), 255-285. https://doi.org/10.7557/1.12.2.7207