Aspectual coercion in Paraguayan Guarani and other South American Language

Authors

  • Martín Califa Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento; Consejo Nacional de Investigación Científicas y Técnicas

Abstract

absTracT: The state and change of state alternation has been claimed to be sensitive to the semantics and lexical encoding pattern of predicates (Talmy 2000; KoontzGarboden & Levin 2005; Koontz-Garboden 2005). More precisely, the evidence from the languages that encode property concepts as verbs shows that these forms tend to be polysemic and that specific readings are obtained through aspectual coercion (Koontz-Garboden 2007). In keeping with this, this article analyzes property

Keywords:

coerción, aspecto, guaraní paraguayo, lenguas sudamericanas