Abstract
This article provides an overview of the main facts and analytical problems that relate to verbal periphrases. The article is structured as follows. In §1 I provide an overview of the main criteria for being a periphrasis, and the constructions that it should be differentiated from. §2 is devoted to the nature of the auxiliary verb, and its limits with other types of verbs. In §3 I talk about the auxiliated verb, and the linking element that sometimes appears in connection to it. §4 briefly discusses the main structure of a periphrasis, and is followed by a few sections about the syntactic behaviour of these linguistic objects. §5 discusses the behaviour of clitics within periphrases; §6 talks about the selectional restrictions; §7 talks about the behaviour of passives with these structures. §8 discusses the semantic classification of periphrases and some of the research problems that they trigger. §9 talks about sequences of periphrases, and their additional restrictions.
Highlights
This article provides an overview of the main facts and analytical problems that relate to verbal periphrases
Perhaps, the presence of a participle does not force a result interpretation and it is possible to have continuative periphrases with participial auxiliated verbs, where rather than expressing that the properties were attained after completion of an event, the periphrasis talks about the continuity of that state
The descriptive content is provided by vP, with all the material that it contains, and the time or world properties that let that description be anchored to a particular time period and a particular world are provided by an additional head necessary to move to the following domain, EventP
Summary
This particular analysis does not propose a periphrastic construction for the underlying syntax, because there is no second verb –the additional layer is a noun–; note that this noun denotes a state, not an object, and is related to a modal meaning, which perhaps implies that changing the label from N to a functional verbal projection would not be totally unmotivated. In all these combinations, the first verb is not used in its lexical sense, does not contain its full conceptual semantics and does not introduce arguments of its own. For this reason, perhaps, the presence of a participle does not force a result interpretation and it is possible to have continuative periphrases with participial auxiliated verbs, where rather than expressing that the properties were attained after completion of an event, the periphrasis talks about the continuity of that state. (134) Luis tiene dos exámenes {aprobados / suspendidos / #sucios} This already suggests that an analysis of tener in the resultative meaning as something other than a periphrasis is dubious, but perhaps feasible in the case of other participial combinations. Auxiliary arrancar coger comenzar dar echar(se) empezar explotar largarse liarse meterse pegar ponerse romper soltarse
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