Psych verbs: the behavior of objexp verbs in brazilian portuguese
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Psychological verbs, especially Object Experiencer verbs, are widely
discussed in the linguistic literature because of their peculiar syntactic and semantic
properties. Two main issues regarding Object-Experiencer verbs are often raised:
their aspectual nature and an alternation process (with the experiencer in subject
position). This article analyzes Brazilian Portuguese Object Experiencer verbs,
focusing on these issues. Based on a study of 170 verbs, we claim that Object
Experiencer verbs constitute a verb class whose members describe a complex
stage-level state in which a stimulus state activates (in a causative relation) a mental
state in an experiencer. In addition, we argue that Object-Experiencer verbs
appear in an inverse form: the experiencer as subject, and the stimulus as oblique.
We claim that such an inverse form does not result from the causative alternation.
In the inverse structure, different from an inchoative form of a change-of-state verb,
both arguments are strongly preferable, and the verbs still denote a stative situation.
We also provide a representation for the event structure of those verbs, using
predicate decomposition, that is associated with their syntactic properties.
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Lingua portuguesa - Sintaxe, Lingua portuguesa - Verbos
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Alternation, Brazilian Portuguese, Causative states, Event structure, Psych verbs
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https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2022-0024/html