{"title":"Spanish Unaccusative Construction and Phase","authors":"Eunjung You","doi":"10.21811/eh.108.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21811/eh.108.71","url":null,"abstract":"In unaccusative constructions, the functional head T establishes an Agree relation with a noun phrase that carries a theme theta role. Previous analyses of them have relied on additional assumptions such as categorizing the vP phase as strong or weak and delaying the timing of transfer. In this paper, we present an alternative analysis that naturally avoids the formation of a phase during derivation by utilizing the concept of external pair-merge proposed by Epstein et al.(2016). Building on this perspective, we conduct a comparative analysis of the syntactic characteristics exhibited in unaccusative constructions and transitive constructions. We provided evidence by showing that a floated quantifier associated with the object can remain in-situ within unaccusative constructions and nominative case is assigned in the object position without movement. Furthermore, inspired by the discussions put forth by McGinnis (2004) and Den Dikken (2022) concerning unaccusative constructions with dative arguments, we put forward the proposition that ApplP, positioned above v*P, functions as a phase, forming a complete structure of predicate and arguments.","PeriodicalId":471528,"journal":{"name":"Seu'pein eo'munhag","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expansion of senses and legs in the short stories of Juan José Millás","authors":"Selgie Koh","doi":"10.21811/eh.108.173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21811/eh.108.173","url":null,"abstract":"According to Marshall McLuhan, media has the purpose of expanding human senses. Therefore, he says that the development of human civilization is the development of media. Among the five human senses, sight and hearing achieved remarkable expansion due to the development of electrical technology, but the expansion of the other senses is limited. In other words, in the case of touch, smell, and taste, it is inevitable to depend on the extension of the legs. Juan José Millás deals with the extension of the senses and the extension of the legs in several of his short stories. In his works, the walls of boundaries are broken down, and the expansion of the senses is also realized by breaking down the walls between oneself and others, reality and unreality. Through this, the writer is talking about the meaning of literature in the classical sense of understanding reality through the lives of others.","PeriodicalId":471528,"journal":{"name":"Seu'pein eo'munhag","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Syntax and Semantics of [muy amigo- possessive] in Spanish","authors":"Wonsuk Jung","doi":"10.21811/eh.108.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21811/eh.108.95","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the syntax and semantics of [muy amigo-possessive] in Spanish. Like predicative nouns and adjectives in the complement position of the copulative verb ser, the string of [muy amigo-possessive] indicates a property of the subject, and at the same time shows a true possessive relationship between the word amigo and the postnominal possessive. To capture these properties structurally, I present an analysis of [muy amigo-possessive] that accounts for the categorial relationship between the word amigo and the postnominal possessive. Specifically, I argue that the word amigo contained in the string of [muy amigo-possessive] undergoes a recategorization from noun to adjective in order to be consistent with categorial selection. From the perspective of Distributed Morphology, I propose that the word amigo, which is introduced as a category-neutral root amig, merges first with a nominalizer to yield the structure of [amigo-possessive], and then merges with a adjectivizer as a process of recategorization to finally produce the structure of [muy [amigo-possessive]]. Under this analysis, categorial selection of the constituents in the string of [muy amigo-possessive] is satisfied in an appropriate way, and the syntactic distribution of each constituent is also explained. Finally, a number of alternatives to the proposed analysis are critically examined.","PeriodicalId":471528,"journal":{"name":"Seu'pein eo'munhag","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Festividades prehispánicas Nahuas","authors":"Franco Lozano Marcos","doi":"10.21811/eh.108.327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21811/eh.108.327","url":null,"abstract":"This thesis arises from the interest to know the meaning of the Nahuatl pre-Hispanic festivities, for that reason we can know the Nahuatl ceremonies and, at the same time we can know the principle of their duality. The Central Mexican festivals of the solar year are described with considerable detail in XVIth century sources. Until know, the rituals have always been interpreted according to their position in the solar year at the time they were first desctibed to the Spaniards. The cultural legacy expressed in manuscripts and testimonies of New Spain allowed us to have a panoramic view of the Mesoamerican world. According to ancient testimonies, the Aztecs made festivities practices closely linked to the agricultural cycle through representations in which live action exceeded the functional character of other plays, such as that of the West. Such festivals with agricultural rites have been interpreted as sowing or harvest festivals on the sole ground that in the 16th century they more or less coincided with those seasonal events. These rites demonstrations are written in the Roman transcription as taught by the Franciscans. From a date on one of the manuscripts, it is evident that in their present written form they date from a period shortly after the fall of the Aztec empire. Thus, in this paper, three pre-Hispanic festivals are analyzed. In chronological order are: a) Toxcatl was dedicated to Tezcatlipoca. b) Tecuilhuitontli was dedicated to Huixtocíhuatl. c) Toxiuh-molpilia was dedicated to Xiuhtecuhtli. In this way, the pre-Hispanic festive elements of the Nahuatl people are analyzed, how the festivities were manifested in their cultural environment, what was the sacred dimension of the ceremonies, their pre-Hispanic characteristics, their differences and similarities, and the principle of duality in the festivities.","PeriodicalId":471528,"journal":{"name":"Seu'pein eo'munhag","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tirso’s scholasticism and deception: focusing on the comedia, Don Gil de las calzas verdes","authors":"Juhyee Suh","doi":"10.21811/eh.108.225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21811/eh.108.225","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the reasons for the intensive use of deception in comedias of Tirso, focusing on theology and philosophy. The goal of this discussion is to epistemologically pursue the origins behind Tirso’s active application of literary device, deception. Spain chose realism, which was revived in the Middle Ages in the ideas that drove the Counter-Reformation. Realism suited the universality of papal and imperial sovereignty. Specifically, it was an idea supporting the centralization of power in the Empire and the Roman Catholic Church. However, as is well known, realism lost its utility value with the discovery of Copernicus. As a result, in Spain, the will to revive realism led by the government and the Roman Catholic Church and the will to reject realism, which was judged to be erroneous, were to refute each other. Capturing the meaning hidden under laughter delighted the enjoyment class, and the frequent use of deception can be seen as a result of the reflection of the enjoyment class’ desire for it. In addition, the fact that it did not disturb the social order was another real pleasure of fraud. Tirso de Molina, who unflinchingly aesthetically exposed it in a bleak age without antagonizing it, show us that entertainment and art can coexist.","PeriodicalId":471528,"journal":{"name":"Seu'pein eo'munhag","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Semantic Network of the Spanish Preposition CON","authors":"Kyunghee Kim","doi":"10.21811/eh.108.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21811/eh.108.37","url":null,"abstract":"The preposition CON derives from the Latin CUM. In Latin, CUM functioned as a preposition and also fulfilled the role of conjunction. However, the instrumental value did not belong to CUM originally. The ablative case marked this value among others, while CUM indicated company and mode. When the casual system of Latin disappeared, the instrumental value was assigned to CUM and this use was included in the modal, since the concept of mode was broader than the notion of instrument. Thus, it could be assimilated to the values of the preposition CUM. That is, the conceptual proximity caused this phenomenon. For their part, the conjunctive meanings such as accompanying situation, cause, and concession also became prepositional meanings, since they were limited to the structures that headed noun phrases or verbs in infinitive form. Likewise, CON has expanded and specialized in prepositional uses through mechanisms such as metaphor and metonymy that allow the generation of extended meanings. The meanings of instrument, company and mode especially stand out in their semantic network for being more rooted in the daily life of Spanish speakers.","PeriodicalId":471528,"journal":{"name":"Seu'pein eo'munhag","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rewriting Climate Fiction through the Aztec Cosmology and Foretelling an Apocalypse in Homero Aridjis’ La leyenda de los soles","authors":"Jungwon Park","doi":"10.21811/eh.108.277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21811/eh.108.277","url":null,"abstract":"Climate fiction is a newborn literary genre whose main purpose is to feature an unprecedentedly changed or changing climate. Homero Aridjis’ La leyenda de los soles, published in 1993, can be categorized into this form as it represents a Mexico City’s dystopian landscape in the year of 2027, characterized by the ‘ecocide’ including air pollution, severe heat, water scarcity, flood, drought, and endangered species, In addition to it, what makes this novel more characteristic is that it retrieves Aztec myths and cosmology into the future. In doing so, it demonstrates the current environmental crisis ascribes to modern anthropocentrism coupled with colonial power and developmentalism. The eschatological perspective embedded in the Aztec cosmology does not only issue a stark warning, but also teaches us the significance of respecting all human as well as non-human beings on the planet, and of living a entangled life with them. Thus, by showing a potential of Latin American climate fiction, La leyenda de los soles can be read as a ‘prophylactic apocalypticism’ that foretells climate catastrophes in order to prevent them and lead us to a radical criticism on the ecological crisis.","PeriodicalId":471528,"journal":{"name":"Seu'pein eo'munhag","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aspects of 'trans-' in La Reina del Sur","authors":"Seonyi Kim","doi":"10.21811/eh.108.193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21811/eh.108.193","url":null,"abstract":"‘Liquid modernity’ is a concept introduced by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman to describe the nature of contemporary society in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In the liquid modernity of the postmodern era, Bauman argued that the traditional structures have become increasingly fluid and uncertain. This transition is driven by various factors, including globalization, rapid technological advancements, flexible labor markets, and the weakening of traditional social hierarchies. As a result, individuals find themselves in a state of constant flux, where they have to adapt and adjust to new challenges and opportunities continually. In the postmodernism era, the prefix ‘trans-’ is often used to denote various aspects of fluidity, transformation, and boundary-crossing. The use of ‘trans-’ challenges fixed categories and encourages a more dynamic and open-ended understanding of the world. The use of trans in academia is one of the Humanities attempts to contemplate the process of this change. From this point of view, this study aims to examine how these aspects of ‘trans-’ appear through La Reina del Sur from Arturo Pérez-Reverte.","PeriodicalId":471528,"journal":{"name":"Seu'pein eo'munhag","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of Wortfeld and lexical cohesion observed in Spanish Lexical Solidarity","authors":"Jiyoung Choi","doi":"10.21811/eh.108.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21811/eh.108.121","url":null,"abstract":"Vocabulary is structurally separated according to whether individual words form groups based on their meaning or not. Ibsen's famous so-called Feld or Wortfeld theory is an approach to reveal the structure of the whole vocabulary by studying the properties of detailed words belonging to a vocabulary unit in an attempt to reveal the structure of the vocabulary in a language. This study, based on Ibsen's word field theory, confirmed the internal consistency of the word fields found in Spanish verbal locution, collocation, and phraseology for determining to specify meaning, Lexical Solidarity. Its purpose is to reveal the structure, moreover, Coseriu’s Lexical Solidarity considers the word field’s lexical structure begun in Ibsen as an integrated structure, and sees that the lexical unit has a systematic structure due to the limitations of the word field composition. Therefore, when analyzing the lexical structure of the representative Lexical Solidarity. We will examine the coherence between the standardized lexical units by the isolation of morphology and meaning caused by the word sets and the sequential properties of each lexical unit.","PeriodicalId":471528,"journal":{"name":"Seu'pein eo'munhag","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study on the Progressiveness of the Heroines of Tirso's Play","authors":"Yong-wook Yoon","doi":"10.21811/eh.108.247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21811/eh.108.247","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to more specifically and realistically identify the progressiveness of the heroine in the plays of Tirso, one of Spain's leading playwrights in the 17th century. To this end, this study will attempt to compare the extraordinary value of progressiveness of the heroine of the Tirso’s play with the heroine of the Lope’s play with a similar theme or conflict structure to reveal its progressiveness more specifically and realistically. Tirso's La gallega Mari-Hernández and Lope's La moza de cántaro are plays in common with heroine as a monster girl, while Tirso’s El Vergonzo en palacio and Lope’s El perro del Hortelano are plays that deal with the love crisis between a noble woman and her servant. Moreover, Tirso’s Don Gil de Las calzas verdes and Lope’s El acero de Madrid are plays that represent the heroine in a common crisis. The comparison of these plays shows that the heroine of the Tirso’s play took the lead in solving conflicts and problems by exercising their own abilities, while the heroine of the Lope’s play does not play a leading role in solving conflicts and problems and relies on male characters or external factors. In conclusion, it can be seen that the progressiveness of the heroine of the Tirso’s play becomes more pronounced through comparison with the heroine of the Lope’s play, which shows a similar dramatic atmosphere and story structure.","PeriodicalId":471528,"journal":{"name":"Seu'pein eo'munhag","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}