Processing non-culminating accomplishments in European Portuguese

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2025

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Zhang, Zichen (Author) Other; Gomes, Juliana Novo (Author) FLUP; Leal, António (Author) FLUP

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Title: Isogloss

Vol. 11 No. 7

Publisher: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.572

Abstract (EN): This paper investigates the processing and interpretation of non-culmination sentences and subjects’ agentivity in European Portuguese. A five-point Likert scale is employed to test the native speaker’s judgment regarding the acceptability of five types of non-culminating accomplishment sentences put forward in Guéron and Vogeleer (2021), providing evidence that speakers accept non-culminating accomplishments to a certain extent, albeit acceptance differs depending on the circumstance. Furthermore, while the subject’s agentivity does have some bearing on the acceptability rating, it does not appear to be a requirement for non-culminating accomplishments in European Portuguese. A self-paced reading experiment also shows processing differences amongst five types of non-culminating accomplishments and that subject agentivity does not affect processing time.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 24