Abstract
AbstractWestern Peninsular Spanish possesses a type of causative construction in which an intransitive lexeme is used as transitive. Specifically, the verbscaer(‘to fall’),quedar(‘to stay’) andentrar(‘to enter) can induce a direct object in detriment of the standard verbstirar(‘to throw’),dejar(‘to leave’) andmeter(‘to put in’). This phenomenon (called lability) has not been investigated in depth for Spanish and, with this paper I attempt to pinpoint its current geographical extension as well as the semantic factors that favour the transitivisation of these verbs.
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