Zúñiga, Fernando (2023). Las construcciones pasivas del español. In: Rojo, Guillermo; Vázquez Rozas, Victoria; Torres Cacoullos, Rena (eds.) Sintaxis del español / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Syntax. Routledge Handbooks (pp. 289-301). London / New York: Routlegde
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)This chapter presents the essentials of Spanish passive constructions. The passive that is most widely used features the element se (“reflexive passive”, e.g. se preparan los platos); a special case of this se-passive expresses modal meanings (“mediopassive”, e.g. los platos se preparan así). The other two constructions addressed (“analytic passives”) feature a participle and a copula; one expresses mainly processes, e.g. los platos son preparados por el chef, while the other expresses states, e.g. los platos están preparados. The chapter focuses on the synchronic characterization of these constructions’ structures, with special attention to the various semantic and syntactic restrictions placed upon them. This structural characterization is complemented by a brief typological commentary that allows an adequate contextualization of the constructions discussed. In addition, the chapter addresses some aspects treated by the literature on the use of the different passives, with special attention to register variation.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics |
UniBE Contributor: |
Zúñiga, Fernando |
Subjects: |
400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 460 Spanish & Portuguese languages |
ISBN: |
9780367476496 |
Series: |
Routledge Handbooks |
Publisher: |
Routlegde |
Language: |
Español |
Submitter: |
Fernando Zúñiga |
Date Deposited: |
27 Jan 2023 14:23 |
Last Modified: |
06 Apr 2023 16:16 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/176694 |
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