The event structure of reciprocal verbs and its implications for bidirectionality
- Ana Fernández-Montraveta 1
- Gloria Vázquez García 2
- 1 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. España
- 2 Universidad de Lleida. España
ISSN: 0035-0451, 0718-0934
Year of publication: 2016
Issue: 92
Pages: 280-303
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista signos: estudios de lingüística
Abstract
In this article we present a detailed description of the event structure of the reciprocal situations expressed lexically in Spanish. The description is based on the sentences extracted from a Spanish corpus. We put forward a proposal that involves differentiating between the simple or multiple nature of the reciprocal event and also between the independent or dependent relation of the subevents that make up a reciprocal situation. We characterize reciprocal verbs according to an aspectual typology and we also contribute a new analysis of the so-called collective verbs in order to distinguish them from reciprocal predicates. Finally, we propose a redefinition of the condition of bidirectionality for reciprocal situations
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