79815 20210526181243.0 doi 10.1515/iral-2018-2008 sideral 108938 ART-2019-108938 eng Ibarretxe Antuñano, Iraide Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-0241-9265 How to become a woman without turning into a Barbie: Change-of-state verb constructions and their role in Spanish as a foreign language 2019 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Pseudo-copulative change-of-state (PCOS) verbs are predicates that involve a change in the composition of an entity undergoing a particular event. Due to their complex linguistic nature, these verbs are not easy to be accounted for and consequently, they represent a real challenge to language teachers and learners. First, this paper critically examines the specialized L1 and L2 literature on PCOS verbs in Spanish. Then, it is shown that previous studies are unable to provide a unanimous theory, but rather offer heterogeneous explanations that are full of exceptions and overlook semantic nuances. The second part of this work presents a corpus-based constructional study of the PCOS verbal structure [Vcl+NP] in two PCOS verbs, hacerse ‘make.cl’ and volverse ‘turn.cl’. It is argued that a multi-level family of PCOS constructions captures both the specificity of fully-saturated constructions (María se hizo mujer ‘María became a woman’), as well as the more general abstract patterns ([Subject PCOS-verb Object]). This constructional approach offers a unified and motivated explanation for these PCOS verbs that can be very useful for Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL). info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-82460-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 0.647 2019 LINGUISTICS 116 / 187 = 0.62 2019 Q3 T2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 234 / 263 = 0.89 2019 Q4 T3 0.719 2019 Linguistics and Language 2019 Q1 Language and Linguistics 2019 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Cheikh-Khamis, Fátima 3010 575 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Lingüíst. Gral. e Hisp. Área Lingüística General 57, 1 (2019), 97-120 IRAL. International review of applied linguistics in language teaching IRAL. International review of applied linguistics in language teaching 0019-042X 3323277 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/79815/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 65995 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/79815/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:79815 articulos driver 2021-05-26-17:59:36 ARTICLE