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María de los Ángeles Cano Cambronero
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1527-6336
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Matías Jaque Hidalgo
Universidad de Chile
Chile
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Vol 48 (2021), Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/verba.48.6517
Submitted: 08-01-2020 Accepted: 22-02-2020 Published: 29-10-2021
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he aim of this paper is to account for the impact that lexical and syntactic aspect has on two Spanish derivational processes. Specifically, we focus on the deverbal derivation of –nte adjectives and –ncia nominals, in order to show that the different productivity that they exhibit can be explained as a restriction on the structural domain of application to which both suffixes are sensitive. Thus, we are going to contend throughout this paper that these suffixes are sensitive not only to the aspect of the verbal source but also to the syntactico–structural level in which that aspect is encoded. Indeed, while –nte can be joined to certain syntactically (external) derived stative predicates, –ncia is restricted to the vP domain, showing a strong preference for lexical states and it never takes as verbal base or source aspectual readings formed above vP.