RT journal article
T1 Lability in Western Peninsular Spanish
A1 Lara Bermejo, Víctor
A2 Filología
AB The western variety of Peninsular Spanish possesses a type of causative construction in which an intransitive lexeme is used transitively. This phenomenon, called lability, is attested in three specific verbs: caer (‘to fall’), quedar (‘to stay’) and entrar (‘to enter’). As a consequence, they can induce a direct object at the expense of the standard forms tirar (‘to throw’), dejar (‘to leave’) and meter (‘to put in’). Lability has not been studied in depth for Spanish and, with this paper, I attempt to pinpoint its current extension as well as the possible semantic factors that prompt the transitivisation of these verbs.
PB Wiley
SN 0039-3193
YR 2019
FD 2019-12-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32225
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32225
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 06-nov-2026