Écho des études romanes 2009, 5(1):27-40 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2009.003
Les verbes aller et venir et leur incompatibilité avec l’emploi résultatifFrench
- Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
The verbs aller and venir and their incompatibility with the resultative interpretation.
This paper deals with the French verbs aller 'to go' and venir 'to come' and their incompatibility with the resultative interpretation. Aller and venir are motion verbs denoting a transition. According to PUSTEJOVSKY (1991), verbs denoting a transition have the event structure .
In this paper, I argue that this representation is unable to capture the inherent Aktionsart properties of aller and venir. I further argue that this representation fails to account for the fact that the verbs aller and venir disallow the resultative interpretation. In contrast with the verbs arriver, partir, entrer and sortir, whose resultant state is compatible with the resultative interpretation, the resultant state of aller and venir doesn't trigger this interpretation. I argue that this restriction derives from the deictic nature of these verbs. Finally, the adverbial depuis x temps, literally 'since x time', fails to test durative aspect since it is compatible with both perfective and imperfective interpretations.
Keywords: resultative interpretation; Aktionsart; motion verbs, French
Published: June 11, 2009 Show citation
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