Psych Predicates in Romance Languages
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- Niklas Wiskandt - Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf - email
- Elga Cremades Cortiella - Universitat de les Illes Balears - email
- Rolf Kailuweit - Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf - email
Abstract
This volume collects a broad selection of research perspectives on psych predicates in Romance languages. The individual chapters present studies on different languages – Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French, and Latin, among others – as well as sub-phenomena – the psych alternation, dative-experiencer verbs, psych nouns, and light verb constructions. Different methodologies and theoretical approaches complement each other and benefit from discussions across framework boundaries. For instance, there are different opinions across the chapters on how to classify the pronominal constructions of object-experiencer verbs: are they anticausatives, autocausatives, antipassives? The volume also highlights the value of an interaction between theoretical and data-driven approaches, as empirical chapters in the volume show that data sometimes contradict the assumptions made on theoretical grounds. Finally, the cross-linguistic studies in some contributions complement findings on individual languages in the other chapters.
Keywords Corpus analysis • Detransitivization • Experiencer object verbs • Alternation • Inverted structure • Old French • Anticausatives • Psych alternation • Psych verbs • Grammatical voice • Preposition à • Syntax • Animacy • Experiencer • Diathesis • Antipassives • Autocausatives • Experiencers • Dative verbs • Argument structure • Voice syncretism • Eventive structure • Experimental linguistics • Middle voice • Psych nouns • Semantics • Romance and Germanic languages • Impersonal psychological verbs • Object-Experiencer verbs • Elicitation • Catalan • Romance languages • Dative Experiencer • Object-experiencer verbs • Voice • Spanish • Anticausative • Case marking • Psychological verbs • Romance Languages • Typology • Corpus linguistics • Latin • Role-and-Reference Grammar • Nominalizations
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-962-7 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-962-7 | ISBN (PRINT) 979-12-5742-059-8 | Pubblicato 29 Aprile 2026 | Lingua en
The volume is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), as a part of the project “Psych-Prädikate in den romanischen Sprachen (Schwerpunkt Spanisch und Katalanisch)”, within the funding line “Higher Education Dialogue with Southern Europe”.Copyright © 2026 Niklas Wiskandt, Elga Cremades Cortiella, Rolf Kailuweit. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.