Psych Predicates in Romance Languages
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edited by
- 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 Voice • Dative verbs • Nominalizations • Corpus analysis • Anticausative • Impersonal psychological verbs • Autocausatives • Catalan • Psych nouns • Alternation • Latin • Object-experiencer verbs • Semantics • Psych verbs • Psych alternation • Romance languages • Argument structure • Old French • Romance and Germanic languages • Role-and-Reference Grammar • Psychological verbs • Anticausatives • Animacy • Experimental linguistics • Dative Experiencer • Detransitivization • Experiencers • Elicitation • Experiencer object verbs • Inverted structure • Corpus linguistics • Experiencer • Antipassives • Syntax • Diathesis • Eventive structure • Object-Experiencer verbs • Case marking • Voice syncretism • Spanish • Preposition à • Grammatical voice • Romance Languages • Typology • Middle voice
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 | Published April 29, 2026 | Language 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.