Behavior adjectives : Dynamic, agentive and unergative

Katia Paykin; Fayssal Tayalati

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Behavior adjectives : Dynamic, agentive and unergative

In: Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World

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Katia Paykin

Katia Paykin Université de Lille

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Fayssal Tayalati , 3UMR 8163 STL (CNRS)

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Pages:: 241–257

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401208345_013

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This paper examines the question of aspect with relation to adjectives, focusing on French behavior adjectives like méchant “meat”, malhonnête “malicious”, etc. We propose that behavior adjectives should be categorized as dynamic comparable to dynamic verbs for taking an agentive subject. We support our claim by showing that behavior adjectives pass the same tests as their verbal counterparts. Subsequently, we propose that French behavior adjectives and non behavior adjectives are syntactically different in that the former type projects into syntax as an aP whose head, a, takes an AP as its complement, whereas the latter simply projects as an AP.

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Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World

Current research in tense, aspect, mood and modality

Series: Cahiers Chronos, Volume: 25 and Cahiers Chronos Online, Volume: 25

Cover Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401208345

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2012

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