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à un exposé de

Oana Săvescu Ciucivara

(Université de Venise & Université de Bucarest)



Titre :

On Re-prefixation in English and Romanian



Date : le 22 octobre 2012

Heure : 10h00

Lieu :  Université de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint Denis, salle D328

Plan d'accès:

http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/Plans-d-acces,672.html
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Abstract:

Talmy (1985) proposed that English and the Romance languages differ in
that the latter generally express "path" in verb roots, whereas
the former expresses "path" in satellite morphemes such as
prepositions. In this talk, we present novel data from Romanian re-
prefixation, arguing that it provides support for a structural
difference between certain English and Romanian constructions with put
and related verbs. This difference necessitates a syntactic approach to
both re- prefixation and to Talmy's distinction between Romance and
English "path" incorporation. We argue that in Romanian, like in
English, re- scopes syntactically over the direct object DP and
semantically selects a change of state.  The contrast is argued to be
due to the existence in Romanian of a "path" component on
causative little v. In English, the "path" component of put -
constructions must be expressed with a small clause, making re-
prefixation impossible (cf Marantz 2009).



References:

Marantz, Alec. 2009. Resultatives and re-resultatives: Direct objects
may construct events by themselves. Paper presented at the PLC.

Talmy, Leonard. 1985. Lexicalization patterns: semantic structure in
lexical forms. In

Language Typology and Syntactic Description, ed. Timothy Shopen,
57–149. Cam-

bridge: Cambridge University Press.



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