Open AccessDejar como verbo de causatividad positiva
Author(s) -
Julieta Castellanos Armenta,
Ricardo Maldonado Soto
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
anuario de letras lingüística y filología/anuario de letras. lingüística y filología
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2448-8224
pISSN - 2448-6418
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.adel.2020.1.0001
Subject(s) - causation , infinitive , verb , causative , philosophy , linguistics , gerund , psychology , humanities , epistemology
This paper describes the semantic and syntactic conditions determining causative constructions with dejar (dejar + infinitive/gerund) inducing positive causation. Based on 20th Century Mexican Spanish data, we will argue that the type of causation of these structures is determined by the way in which the causative force is imposed —according to Force Dynamics (Talmy, 1988). This is determined by the verb internal structure, the features of the stimulus inciting the event and the reaction of the causee to the main event impulse (resistance/participation).