La capacidad de ‘perspectivización’ de la pasiva con verse

Abstract

The present contribution focuses on the verb verse 'see-refl' as auxiliary of the Spanish periphrastic passive ‘verse 'see-refl' + past participle’ from a semantic cognitive perspective. On the basis of the verb’s meaning outside the passive construction, we postulate that this construction differs from the canonical passives by implying the presence of a perceiver. In first and second person subjects perceiver and patient role coincide. With third person subjects, however, the perceiver can be situated outside the scenery; this corresponds to the perspectivization licensed by the use of the verb ver 'see'. The empirical evidence is drawn from a twofold economical corpus, made up of annual bank reports and of press articles.

DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/verba.42.1258