Pluractionality and the unity of the event

Lucia M. Tovena (1)

1 LLF UMR7110 - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle

This paper exposes shortcomings of an analysis to singleevent plural verbs (Cusic's event-internal pluractionals) based on temporal discontinuity. It shows how to ground discontinuity on the participant used to measure out the event, by forcing breaches in the property of Mapping-to-SubObject that its theta role should have. This provides an explanation for why phases cannot be described by the same predicate applying to the whole event, which in turn exposes differences with respect to semelfactive verbs and the minimal units they are made of.

Mots clés: C-ACTI

Domaines: Linguistique

Lucia M. Tovena. Pluractionality and the unity of the event. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Amsterdam Colloquium, 2009, France. pp.445--454. ⟨halshs-00751183⟩