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Abstract
States, long considered a homogeneous event class, have been shown to actually decompose into sufficiently
distinct aspectual types. Davidsonian and Kimian statives (Maienborn 2008; Rothmayr 2009), for instance, show a major contrast in presence/absence of event-related
properties, including finer-grained (sub)class distinctions. Within the Davidsonian (mixed eventive-stative) type, a novel class
has been identified using Spanish data as reference (Marín and McNally 2011). This
class, dubbed inchoative stative is characterized by including a left boundary (Piñón 1997) marking the temporal onset of the state. We focus on documented Old Spanish data to argue
that non-eventive (Kimian-like) left-bounded states are also possible. We note that productive combinations of the locative copula
estar ‘be-loc’ with past participles of specific verbs produce distinct selectional and
interpretive patterns defined by (i) pure states (homogenous spatial situation); (ii) no change-of-state/location denotation;
(iii) left boundary. If correct, data suggest that inchoative stativity is not necessarily a Davidsonian type of
predication; and that two distinct types of inchoative statives should be carefully differentiated under (more) specific
criteria.
期刊介绍:
Spanish in Context publishes original theoretical, empirical and methodological studies into pragmatics and sociopragmatics, variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse and conversation analysis, functional contextual analyses, bilingualism, and crosscultural and intercultural communication with the aim of extending our knowledge of Spanish and of these disciplines themselves. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: IBR/IBZ, European Reference Index for the Humanities, Sociological abstracts, INIST, Linguistic Bibliography, Scopus