6 janvier 2025
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Isabel Repiso, « DO left-detached constructions and scale of affectedness in Spanish: Frequencies and uses elicited from the corpus CORPES XXI », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.1075/resla.23036.rep
In Spanish, DO left-detached constructions (e.g., A él lo atropellaron) allow to topicalize an event participant different from the Actor. This semantic feature makes them similar to passive sentences marked by the auxiliary ser + past participle. However, unlike passives, DO left-detached constructions have remained relatively unexplored by empirical corpus studies targeting Spanish. The present study aims to describe the uses and frequencies of this construction when encoding human referents (e.g., A ella la premiaron). 164 constructions from the corpus CORPES XXI were analyzed according to the variables context (violent vs. neutral), degree of affectedness (surface contact vs. no surface contact), and Undergoer’s experienced change (state or condition / location / psychological / beneficial). Our results suggest that this construction is significantly productive to mark changes of sate or condition in combination with physical contact verbs within contexts of violence. These results highlight the prominence of this construction in Spanish to mark physical and violent affectedness within predicates marked by negative-valence verbs and the semantic primitive [CAUSE].