La inacusatividad en los verbos meteorológicos en español: un análisis comparativo de llover y amanecer

• Autores: Machteld Meulleman, Nathalie Stockman
• Localización: Bulletin of Hispanic studies ( Liverpool. 2002 ), ISSN 1475-3839, ISSN-e 1478-3398, Vol. 90, Nº. 2, 2013, págs. 117-132
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It is widely assumed that meteorological verbs can be considered as unaccusative across the board. This study re-examines this assumption through an empirical analysis of the semantico-syntactic behaviour of the Spanish llover and amanecer. Although our data reveal that both meteorological verbs cover a wide variety of syntactic constructions, we establish that they indeed fundamentally behave as unaccusative verbs. However, llover functions basically as a verb of change of location, while amanecer can be categorized as a verb of appearance. We argue that this semantic difference between both types of unaccusative verbs accounts for the different constructions in which they appear: llover sometimes has an unergative or transitive use, while amanecer often functions as a copulative verb.