Why are no locative conjunctions in spanish?

Pavón Lucero, María Victoria

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Why are no locative conjunctions in spanish?

dc.affiliation.area	UC3M. Área de Lenguaje	es
dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Humanidades: Filosofía, Lenguaje y Literatura	es
dc.contributor.author	Pavón Lucero, María Victoria
dc.date.accessioned	2011-08-09T10:32:16Z
dc.date.available	2011-08-09T10:32:16Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description.abstract	The main purpose of this paper is to explore why there are no locative subordinating conjunctions in Spanish. As we will see, the absence of this type of conjunctions is due, on the one hand, to its lexical-grammatical properties and, on the other hand, to the semantic structure of locative expressions. Adverbial subordinating conjunctions share properties with both lexical and functional heads. They share with complementizers the requirement that they take an extended projection of the verb as their complement. At the same time, just like lexical categories such as prepositions, they have lexical content and are associated with an argument structure. In this sense, adverbial subordinating conjunctions can be seen as semantic functions which can express several types of relations and take events or states as their internal argument. However, the semantic structure of spatial expressions must contain a place function that takes as argument a conceptual constituent corresponding to the semantic category Thing. The reason for the non-existence of locative subordinating conjunctions is, then, the incompatibility between categorial and semantic requirements in their complement.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Pavón Lucero, M. V. Why are no locative conjunctions in spanish? Catalan Journal of Linguistics, vol. 9, 2010, pp. 185-201
dc.identifier.issn	1695-6885
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	185
dc.identifier.publicationissue	9
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	201
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Catalan Journal of Linguistics
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/11999
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Grup de Gramàtica Teòrica de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona y l'Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRights	open access
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Filología
dc.subject.other	Subordinating conjunctions
dc.subject.other	Prepositions
dc.subject.other	Complementizers
dc.subject.other	Relative adverbs
dc.title	Why are no locative conjunctions in spanish?
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