Abstract

RABAGO TANORI, ÁLVARO  and  ALARCON NEVE, LUISA JOSEFINA. The stative verb "Traer" in Mexican Spanish: syntactic structure and semantic properties. Cuad. linguist. hisp. [online]. 2015, n.26, pp.23-47. ISSN 0121-053X.

This research project is aimed at describing the uses of verb "traer" in imperfective events in Mexican Spanish, based on the Gramática de Construcciones de Goldberg (1995) and a previous study by Rábago and Alarcón (2012) regarding the stative "traer". A series of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects is explored, regarding the relationships among participants: Subject, Object and their Complements. Examples from two oral register corpora are analyzed: the Sociolinguistic Corpus of Ciudad de México, and the Speech Corpus of Monterrey. The following tendency is shown: alienable objects are used with predicative complements, while inalienable objects combine the preferred structure with adverbial complements or secondary predicates which enable and sometimes strengthen the discursive setting.

Keywords : stative verb "traer"; imperfective event; predicative complement; adverbial complement; secondary predicate; alienable - inalienable; Mexican Spanish.

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