11/02/2021 Seminari GLiF, a càrrec de Fabienne Martin (Humboldt University Berlin)
11/02/2021 Seminari GLiF, a càrrec de Fabienne Martin (Humboldt University Berlin)
Data: dijous 11 de febrer del 2021
Hora: 12.00 h
Accés: en línia, amb Collaborate (enllaç:
eu.bbcollab.com/guest/
Resum:
This paper explores some properties of so-called pancake sentences in Brazilian Portuguese and French. Pancake sentences are copular sentences built with a (postcopular) adjective, but differ from run-of-the-mill copular sentences in two respects: (i) the nominal expression in the subject position, which is individual-denoting in its literal meaning, is reinterpreted non-literally as an event type involving the original referent; (ii) there is agreement mismatch between this nominal expression in subject position and the adjective. Following Greenberg (2008), we propose that in Brazilian Portuguese and in French, it is the agreement feature mismatch which triggers the reinterpretation mechanism of the nominal expression, which stands for a non-overt semantic structure.