Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates [Hardcover]

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

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.

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.

This book poses questions about the nature of theme vowels, parasyntlé