Processing non-culminating accomplishments in European Portuguese
This paper investigates the processing and interpretation of non-culmination sentences and subjects' agentivity in European Portuguese. A five-point Likert scale is employed to test the native speaker's judgment regarding the acceptability of five types of non-culminating accomplishment se...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:322180 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/322180 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.572 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Non-culminating accomplishments Aspect Sentence processing Self - paced reading Likert - scale |
| Sumario: | This paper investigates the processing and interpretation of non-culmination sentences and subjects' agentivity in European Portuguese. A five-point Likert scale is employed to test the native speaker's judgment regarding the acceptability of five types of non-culminating accomplishment sentences put forward in Guéron and Vogeleer (2021), providing evidence that speakers accept non-culminating accomplishments to a certain extent, albeit acceptance differs depending on the circumstance. Furthermore, while the subject's agentivity does have some bearing on the acceptability rating, it does not appear to be a requirement for non-culminating accomplishments in European Portuguese. A self-paced reading experiment also shows processing differences amongst five types of non-culminating accomplishments and that subject agentivity does not affect processing time. |
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