Morphology, argument structure, and lexical semantics: the case of Spanish auto- and co-prefixation to verbal bases
Morphology, argument structure, and lexical semantics: the case of Spanish auto- and co-prefixation to verbal bases
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形态学、论证结构和词汇语义：西班牙语词根自动前缀和共同前缀的情况
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10.1515/ling.2003.017
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发表时间：
2003
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通讯作者：
E. Arquiola
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作者：
E. Arquiola
本文讨论了两种西班牙语前缀过程，即自动前缀和共前缀，它们影响事件参与者通过他们所应用的动词基础表达的事件。从我们的角度来看，这两个前缀过程为以下主张提供了新的证据：在研究词汇语义、词法和句法之间的关系时，有必要区分词汇表征的两个层次，这与 Booij (1992)、Levin 和 Rappaport Hovav (1995、1998)、Sadler 和 Spencer (1998) 的观点一致。我们将证明，只有属于特定词汇类别的动词才能进行共同前缀。因此，这个过程似乎必须从词汇语义结构的层面来考虑。至于自动前缀，将表明这种形态过程可以应用于属于非常不同的词汇类别的动词。这似乎表明必须在参数结构层面考虑自动前缀。然而，我们将证明，管理自动前缀的附加语义限制的存在使得有必要参考词汇句法级别的表示（如参数结构）和语义级别的表示（如词汇语义结构）。
This paper deals with two Spanish prefixation processes, namely auto- and co- prefixation, which affect the participants in the event expressed by the verbal bases to which they apply. From our point of view, these two prefixation processes provide new evidence for the claim that it is necessary to distinguish two levels of lexical representation in the study of the relation between lexical semantics, morphology, and syntax, in the line of Booij (1992), Levin and Rappaport Hovav (1995, 1998), and Sadler and Spencer (1998). We will show that only verbs belonging to a specific lexical class can undergo co- prefixation. Therefore, it seems that this process has to be accounted for at the level of lexical semantic structure. As for auto- prefixation, it will be shown that this morphological process can apply to verbs belonging to very different lexical classes. This seems to indicate that auto-prefixation has to be accounted for at the level of argument structure. However, we will show that the existence of an additional semantic restriction governing auto- prefixation makes it necessary to have reference both to a lexical syntactic level of representation like argument structure and to a semantic level of representation like lexical semantic structure.