Telicity and indefinite plural determiners in Spanish spoken in Spain

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva Gomes, Jean Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Leitão Martins, Adriana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Domínios de Lingu@gem
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/49303
• topic: Telicidade; Determinantes plurais indefinidos; Espanhol; Telicity; Indefinite plural determiners; Spanish; Telicidad; Determinantes plurales indefinidos; Español

Telicity is a semantic aspectual notion understood as the inherent endpoint of a situation, whichis linguistically expressed. According to Moure (1990), the presence of determiners as "el/un" leads to a telic reading of the sentence, while the absence of determiners leads to an atelic reading. However, it is unknown to which reading plural determiners can lead. Plural determiners such as "unos/algunos" can be interpreted as a kind of indefinite plural determiner, which is the object of study of this research. According to De Miguel (1999), these determiners lead to an atelic reading of the sentence, whereas, according to Rothstein (2008), they lead to a telic reading. In Spanish, one of the ways to highlight the value of telicity is by means of a particle known as telic se. It was investigated, in this paper, the compatibility of this aspectual particle with verbs whose complements are introduced by indefinite plural determiners in a variety of Spanish spoken in Spain known as peninsular northern Castilian. The results indicated that this combination is possible. Thus, it was discussed that the presence of this type of determiner leads to a telic reading of the sentence and that this combination suggests that the telic aspectual value of a sentence does not depend on the presence of a precise measure for the complement delimitation.