Derivación verbal y cambio tipológico: a propósito del latín -izare
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This paper focuses on the evolution of -izāre verbs in Latin. It is shown
that, whereas in Archaic, Classical and Imperial Latin these verbs are
typically unergative and express the Manner in the root, in Late Latin
they start to develop transitive uses linked to a change of state reading,
which triggers the interpretation of the root as Result, rather than
Manner. We relate this change of pattern to the well-known typological
shift from a satellite-framed system (Latin) to a verb-framed one
(Romance). Based on the principles of Nanosyntax, we explain the
reanalysis experienced by the suffix in Late Latin as a change on the
size of its lexically stored tree