Verbs d'actitud

Resumen

In this article we propose a new semantic class that we have named: the attitude predicates. We define this class both intensionally, using syntactic as well as semantic criteria, and extensionally. Regarding syntax, it is noticed that the verbs that belong to this group share at least one dintinctive structure. As far as the semantic analysis of the predicates is concerned, we define a set of common meaning components to all of them as well as presenting the same type of event structure. The hipothesis upon which this work is based is that of Levin -verbs that have the same meaning also present an identical syntactic behavior-, even though there are several differences between our approach and hers. The starting point is also the classification this author provides, a regrouping of which is proposed according to the criteria already mentioned.