Methodological challenges in investigating nominalized infinitives in Spanish
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2017/08/0026/000328Keywords:
acceptability judgments, nominalized infinitives, SpanishAbstract
The present paper deals with Spanish nominalized infinitives (NI), a type of syntactic nominalization that comes in different subtypes. On the basis of argument realization, I will focus on two different forms, a more nominal and a more verbal one. Previous research has mainly focused on the internal syntax of NI, while the factors that govern the distribution of different subtypes have remained unclear. In the following, I will discuss some methodological challenges in investigating the latter issue and suggest acceptability judgment tasks as a possible solution. The results of two experiments show how the acceptability of NI is determined by the interaction of two factors: 1) argument realization and 2) event interpretation.
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