Make up Semantic:

Alumna: Sofa Macarena Acua

UNCO/Facultad de Lenguas

Answers:

1) Lexical Aspects:

A) They pushed the car/they pushed the car into the garage

What I can say about the role of the direct object respect to the lexical aspect in the first sentence
They pushed the car is that this sentence identifies two arguments: They and car related to the
action selected by the transitive verb pushed. The sentence portrays these entities in specific
thematic roles: they is the entity responsible for initiating and carrying out the action, The Agent
and The Car is the entity undergoing the effect of the action of pushed, It is the patient.

In the second sentence the role of the direct object The Car respect to lexical aspects is Theme
because it is the entity undergoing the effect of the action of pushed. Then, into the garage is
The Location because it is the place in which the car moves.

B) One situation type in which the progressive implies perfective is:

- Tom watching implies Tom has watched

In the first sentence, the progressive verb listening describe an action as on-going and continuing
and in the other sentence emphasize the relevance of events in the past to the present.

2) Resultative Constructions:

The sea ate the beach away.

This sentence is a resultative construction we found two predicates: one is the primary or main
predicate (the verb) and there is a secondary predicate, the adjective which denotes a change of state
that the beach (the internal argument of eat) has undergone. There is an agent (external argument)
that performs an action (the beach), as a result of this action, the eating, the internal argument or
theme the man becomes dead. These structures are telic, they are bound.

3) Binding:

John cleaned his room yesterday.

In this sentence the possessive determiner HIS is not an anaphor because this determiner is not
reflexive or reciprocal (one another and each other) and it mustnt be bound in their local domain. It
is not a pronominal because it doesnt refers to a pronoun in the nominative, accusative o genitive
case.

HIS refers to an R- expression (DPs and proper nouns) that refers to the same person, but it must be
free in their local domain.