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dc.contributor.authorGuajardo, Gustavo
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-17T14:17:37Z
dc.date.available2021-11-17T14:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-27
dc.description.abstractThis paper contributes to the study of transitivity as a general property of the clause. Unlike most previous work on the subject, however, transitivity in the present article is used to study a lexical alternation, namely the two causative predicates dejar ‘let’ and hacer ‘make’ in Spanish. To do this, I use the transitivity index (TI), a weighted continuous measure of transitivity based on Hopper and Thompson’s (1980, transitivity in grammar and discourse, Language 56, 251–299) transitivity parameters. The advantage of the TI is that it assigns different weights to each of the transitivity parameters and it is therefore sensitive to the particular construction it is applied to. I show that the TI can correctly predict the two Spanish causatives dejar ‘let’ and hacer ‘make’ with 80% accuracy and demonstrate that hacer is associated with higher transitivity contexts. In addition, linguistic features of the causer such as grammatical person and number are found to help distinguish between the two predicates. The finding that a lexical alternation can be reduced to a difference in transitivity raises important questions regarding the structure of the lexicon and the type of information it may contain.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGuajardo GA. Transitivity on a continuum: The transitivity index as a predictor of Spanish causatives. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 2021en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1946261
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/cllt-2021-0019
dc.identifier.issn1613-7027
dc.identifier.issn1613-7035
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23053
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherDe Gruyteren_US
dc.relation.journalCorpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Spanish language: 026en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Spansk språk: 026en_US
dc.titleTransitivity on a continuum: The transitivity index as a predictor of Spanish causativesen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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