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On events that express properties
- Author(s): María Jesús Fernández Leborans 1 and Cristina Sánchez López 1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 Complutense University of Madrid
- Source: Verb Classes and Aspect , pp 238-263
- Publication Date November 2015
This paper provides empirical support to the hypothesis that habitual readings and dispositional/capacitative readings are different kinds of generic statements, generated by different operators: an aspectual operator HABASP is responsible for the habitual reading and a like modal dispositional operator MODDISP is responsible for the dispositional reading. We analyze the Spanish construction <ser muy de + infinitive>, ex. María es muy de fumar puros (lit. [María is very of smoking cigars]). This construction put together the meaning of a habitual sentence like María often smokes cigars, realized in the infinitive clause, and the meaning of an Individual Level predicate like María is a cigar smoker, realized in a predicative prepositional phrase muy de. Our analysis explains both the properties of the construction as an IL-predicate that contain an infinitive clause with habitual reading and the restrictions about the predicates that can enter the construction.
- Affiliations: 1: Complutense University of Madrid
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