En uno de sus trabajos sobre ser y estar, Claudia Maienborn se hace eco de una divertida
afirmación con la que un profesor de la Universidad de Wisconsin, Luis Crespo, abría un …

Being able to talk about what humans perceive with their senses is one of the fundamental
capacities of language. But how do languages encode perceptual information? In this paper …

What is the lexicon, what does it contain, and how is it structured? What principles determine
the functioning of the lexicon as a component of natural language grammar? What role does …

clauses. We develop an analysis of the copular alternation that is based on the relation of
coincidence. Locative attributives, the class of copular sentences that has received less …

This article provides with a state of the art of how the Individual Level/Stage Level distinction–
and the related but distinct issue of the distribution of ser/estar–is instantiated in Spanish …

A sentence like María está muy guapa ('María looks very pretty') attributes the property of
being pretty to María but also conveys the assumption that the state-of-affairs described is …

The notion of comparison class has figured prominently in recent analyses of the gradability
properties of adjectives. We assume that the comparison class is introduced by the degree …

Aspectual notions, although displayed most clearly in verbs, manifest across categories, with
notions like (un) boundedness manifesting themselves in several instantiations which are …

Certain verbs show an alternation between an eventive and a stative reading, apparently
related to the agentivity of their subject (Rothmayr 2009). This is the case, for instance, of …

The existence of two copular verbs in Spanish–ser 'beSER'and estar 'beESTAR'–has long
attracted the interest of scholars, as it is one of the most intriguing features of Spanish …