“…On the one hand, the differences between ser 'be SER ' and estar 'be ESTAR ' predications have been explained in aspectual/event-structure/ Aktionsart terms (aspectual approaches, Luján, 1981;Clements, 1988;Fernández Leborans, 1999;Gallego & Uriagereka, 2009;Marín, 2010;Zagona, 2012;Gumiel-Molina & Pérez-Jiménez, 2012;Roy, 2013). On the other hand, they have been accounted for in terms of how properties are attributed to subjects (comparisonbased approaches, Crespo, 1946;Bolinger, 1947;Roldán, 1974;Carlson, 1977;Falk, 1979;Franco & Steinmetz, 1983, 1986Gumiel-Molina, Moreno-Quibén & Pérez-Jiménez, 2015a[henceforth, GMP (2015a]). With respect to copular sentences with adjectival predicates, the primary goal of both aspectual and comparison-based approaches has been to account for the fact that some adjectives combine only with one of the copulas while other adjectives combine naturally with both ser 'be SER ' and estar 'be ESTAR '.…”