Individuals and Stages: A Formal Approach from the Predicates Aspectual Information

Authors

  • Mario Casado Mancebo Complutense University of Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n76a03

Keywords:

individual level predicates, stage level predicates, lexis-syntax predicates, predication theory, aspectual structure

Abstract

This paper offers a critical theoretical review of the categories of individual and stage and the different approaches that have been given to both categories from different areas of grammar. Then, a formal analysis of the two types of preaching is proposed from the perspective of the aspectual information of the predicates from the information they consist of when leaving the lexicon, to conclude that the «lexical coercion» is an aspectual coercion that would insert an aspect syntagma with a spatio-temporal variable, interfering with the functional structure of the referential structures of preaching.

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Author Biography

Mario Casado Mancebo, Complutense University of Madrid

Graduated in Spanish Language and Literature and postgraduate in Spanish Language Research. He devotes his research to the fields of phonology, syntax and interface between the two. His early research has focused on phonic studies and his didactics. Last published: Occlusive, fricative a century of continuous struggle, Panhysponic Studies: theoretical and applied linguistics (2018); Phonetics in the high school classroom. A proposal based on the new analysis models, Didacticae, (in press). Currently, he elaborates his doctoral thesis on the relationships between perceptual phonology, prosody and syntax. Institutional affiliation: Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).

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Published

2019-10-18

How to Cite

Casado Mancebo, M. (2019). Individuals and Stages: A Formal Approach from the Predicates Aspectual Information. Lingüística Y Literatura, 40(76), 72–96. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n76a03

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Linguistic studies