The Exhaustive Lexicalisation Principle
By Antonio Fábregas. 2007
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In this article I revisit the well-known empirical problem of manner of motion verbs with directional complements in Spanish. I present some data that, to my mind, had not received due attention in previous studies and I show that some manner of motion verbs actually allow directionals with the preposition a, while all of them allow them with prepositions like hacia or hasta . I argue that this pattern is due to a principle that states that every syntactic feature must be identified by lexical insertion, the Exhaustive Lexicalisation Principle. The crucial problem with directional complements is that the Spanish preposition a is locative, in contrast with English to , and, therefore, unable to identify the Path feature. Some verbs license the directional with a because they can lexicalise Path altogether with the verb; all verbs can combine with hasta or hacia because these prepositions lexicalise Path. When neither the verb nor the preposition lexicalise the Path, the construction is ungrammatical.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics
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- The typology of motion expressions revisited1 (2009, background): “…of reaching a goal, suggesting that they may indeed at least implicate a notion of path, though they do not lexicalize direction or result, despite claims that they do by Alonge (1997) and Folli & Ramchand (2005) for Italian and Fábregas (2007) for Spanish; see also Mateu (2008: 246, n. 29).”