Is there really an aspectual <i>se</i> in Spanish?

Moreno, Carlota de Benito

doi:10.1515/flin-2020-2074

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“…These complications lead García Fernández (2011Fernández ( , 2015 to partially reject the aspectual SE hypothesis at least for movement verbs and other transitive predicates, as we will see later. However, other authors have in fact rejected aspectual SE altoghether from different perspectives (Di Tullio 2012, Armstrong 2013, De Benito 2021, as we will also cover in a few pages. However, before doing so, let us revise briefly the different analyses that aspectual SE has received in the literarture.…”

Section: The Description Of Aspectual Se: Predicates and Objectsmentioning

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SE in Spanish

Fábregas

2021

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This article provides an overview of Spanish SE, covering the main empirical facts, analyses and theoretical issues that it raises, and exploring the prospects to unify all uses –which are over a dozen in the literature– under one same object that keeps its surface properties invariable. We will show that it is almost inescapable to propose that SE is associated to two types of objects, defective arguments and defective verbal heads; both objects share the property of not introducing referentially independent DPs, which can be argued to be the result of the grammaticalisation of a reflexive element in contemporary Spanish. The chapter proposes that a treatment of SE as a projection introduced high in the clausal structure and acting as an agreement locus can be a fruitful way to unify all uses of SE.

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Section: The Description Of Aspectual Se: Predicates and Objectsmentioning

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SE in Spanish

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“…Mientras que algunos usos del clítico se, como el se pasivo, el se impersonal y el se anticausativo, han mostrado cierto consenso en la bibliografía a lo largo de los años (Alcina y Blecua, 1975, Gómez Torrego, 1992, Martín Zorraquino, 1979, Sánchez López, 2002, los análisis sobre el llamado se aspectual muestran que hay muchos menos acuerdos respecto de sus propiedades y de su contribución al predicado que lo contiene (Rodríguez Ramalle, 2005;Benito Moreno, 2021). Este clítico es generalmente considerado una marca de aspecto opcional, es decir, se trata de un uso facultativo del clítico (Sánchez López, 2002) que no altera de manera sustancial las propiedades morfosintácticas de la construcción en la que participa.…”

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“…MacDonald (2017) avanza un modelo generativo, pero, al igual que Armstrong, lo denomina se aspectual (aunque reconoce que es una denominación confusa) y descarta la pertinencia de ciertos datos, como los objetos plurales escuetos (cfr. Benito Moreno, 2021). Desde otros enfoques descriptivos se han desarrollado propuestas recientes que suelen considerar de un modo más integral las propiedades del se y la variabilidad a la que nos enfrentamos al abordar datos auténticos que contienen este clítico.…”

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La construcción transitiva de clítico reflexivo con saber: evidencia del español de Argentina

Oliver

2023

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In this paper we address a corpus of Argentine Spanish data taken from CORPES XXI that exhibits the combination of the aspectual clitic se with the verb saber as in Juan se sabe la lección. Starting with a general characterization of the constructions with this clitic, we take up Armstrong’s (2013) distinction between agentive constructions with reflexive clitic and transitive constructions with reflexive clitic and apply his predictions to the corpus. We note that, while sentences with saberse are close to the transitive constructions, not all the tests apply, so that it is not possible to argue that these constructions operate uniformly. En este trabajo abordamos un corpus de datos del español de Argentina tomado del CORPES XXI que exhibe la combinación del clítico aspectual se con el verbo saber como en Juan se sabe la lección. A partir de una caracterización general de las construcciones con este clítico, retomamos la distinción de Armstrong (2013) entre construcciones agentivas con clítico reflexivo y construcciones transitivas con clítico reflexivo y aplicamos sus predicciones al corpusrecabado. Observamos que, si bien las oraciones con saberse se acercan a las construcciones transitivas, no todas las pruebas se aplican, de modo que no es posible sostener que estas construcciones operan uniformemente.

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Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish “se” constructions

RICHES

2023

J. Child Lang.

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Children’s early grammatical constructions, e.g., SVO, exhibit a learning curve with cumulative verb types (CVT) increasing exponentially. According to Ninio (2006), the fact that learning curves, though nonlinear, can be modelled by a continuous regression suggests instant generalisation. Moreover, differences in initial verbs across children indicate minimal involvement of semantics. This study tested these claims on the Spanish “se” constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio’s findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children’s data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two children’s verb types, suggesting a semantic prototype. Nonetheless, ecological factors may also explain these lexical similarities.

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Is there really an aspectual se in Spanish?

Cited by 8 publications

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SE in Spanish

SE in Spanish

La construcción transitiva de clítico reflexivo con saber: evidencia del español de Argentina

Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish “se” constructions

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