From (semi-)oppositional to non-oppositional middles: the case of Spanish<i>reír(se)</i>-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

From (semi-)oppositional to non-oppositional middles: the case of Spanishreír(se)

Published:2023-07-01 Issue:2 Volume:76 Page:121-164
ISSN:1867-8319
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Author:

de Benito Moreno Carlota¹

Affiliation:

1. URPP Language and Space/Institute of Romance Languages , University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland

Abstract

AbstractThis paper seeks to explore the possibility that Spanish intransitive verbs showing middle marking with no associated change of valency are a source of non-oppositional middle verbs. In order to do so, a study is conducted of the historical evolution of the middle-marked Spanish verbreír(se)‘to laugh’ as well as other semantically related verbs (such asalegrar(se)‘to be happy, pleased’,regocijarse‘to rejoice’ andburlar(se),mofar(se),escarnecer(se)‘to mock, to ridicule, to make fun of’), where the presence of the middle marker is associated with a valency-reducing diathesis.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/stuf-2023-2006/pdf

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