Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicate

Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates provides the first comprehensive and empirically-detailed theoretical analysis of the different ways in which Spanish builds verbs from nouns and adjectives.

List of contents

1. Introduction: what a verbalisation is and what we assume in this monograph
2. Theme vowels: a syntactic analysis for Spanish
3. The internal syntactic structure of parasynthesis
4. Deadjectival verbs in -a, parasynthetic or not
5. Denominal verbs in -a, parasynthetic or not
6. Formations in -ecer, parasynthetic or not
7. Verbalisations in -ificar
8. Verbalisations in -ear
9. Verbalisations in -izar
10. Conclusions of this monograph
Index

About the author

Antonio Fábregas is Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (NTNU), Norway.

Summary

Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates provides the first comprehensive and empirically-detailed theoretical analysis of the different ways in which Spanish builds verbs from nouns and adjectives.

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Fabregas, Antonio Fábregas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032260808
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226080-8
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Spanish, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Spanish, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)