Muñoz @cite{munoz-perez-2026} — Empirical Data #
@cite{munoz-perez-2026}
Grammaticality judgments from Muñoz @cite{munoz-perez-2026} "Stylistic applicatives: A lens into the nature of anticausative SE" (Glossa 11(1)).
Key Data Points #
Three-way synonymy (exx. 7–18): For marked anticausatives with 1SG/2SG dative, three clitic patterns are interchangeable:
- SE + CL_dat: se me rompió "it broke on me"
- CL_dat + LE: me le rompió
- SE + CL_dat + LE: se me le rompió
Person restriction (exx. 15–19): Stylistic LE is available only with 1SG (me) and 2SG (te), not 3SG (le), 1PL (nos), 2/3PL (les).
Marking restriction (exx. 39–40): Stylistic LE requires SE-marked (or optionally SE-marked) anticausatives. Unmarked anticausatives (mejorar) block it.
Acceptability status for Chilean Spanish judgments.
- grammatical : Acceptability
- ungrammatical : Acceptability
- marginal : Acceptability
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A clitic pattern in an anticausative construction.
- se_cl : CliticPattern
- cl_le : CliticPattern
- se_cl_le : CliticPattern
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Person of the dative clitic.
- first_sg : DativeCliticPerson
- second_sg : DativeCliticPerson
- third_sg : DativeCliticPerson
- first_pl : DativeCliticPerson
- third_pl : DativeCliticPerson
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A single grammaticality judgment from the paper.
- exNumber : String
Example number in the paper
- verb : String
The verb
- pattern : CliticPattern
The clitic pattern
- dativePerson : DativeCliticPerson
Person of the dative clitic
- acceptability : Acceptability
Acceptability
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- Phenomena.Causatives.Studies.MunozPerez2026.instBEqJudgment.beq x✝¹ x✝ = false
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romper "break" with 1SG dative: all three patterns OK.
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hundir "sink" with 1SG dative.
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caer "fall" with 1SG dative.
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morir "die" with 1SG dative.
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1SG: stylistic LE is OK.
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2SG: stylistic LE is OK.
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3SG: stylistic LE is BLOCKED.
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1PL: stylistic LE is BLOCKED.
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3PL: stylistic LE is BLOCKED.
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Person restriction data collected.
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quebrar (marked SE) licenses stylistic LE.
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mejorar (unmarked) does NOT license stylistic LE.
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hervir (optional SE) DOES license stylistic LE.
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All three-way synonymy patterns are grammatical for 1SG.
Person restriction: exactly 1SG and 2SG are grammatical.
Person restriction: exactly 3SG, 1PL, 3PL are ungrammatical.
Marking restriction: marked/optional → OK, unmarked → blocked.
The stylistic applicative Fission rule for Chilean Spanish. Instantiates the generic Fission framework with Spanish-specific data:
- Context: inchoative (vGO ∧ vBE)
- Person: [+PART, +SING] (1SG or 2SG)
- Realization: Cl₁ = me/te (from [±AUTHOR]), Cl₂ = le (invariable)
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Muñoz @cite{munoz-perez-2026}: Non-thematic Voice must be overtly marked by a reflexive-like element at PF.
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Apply the Spanish stylistic applicative Fission rule.
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Check whether the Spanish Fission output satisfies the anticausative PF marking condition, making overt SE optional.
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Fission applies only to 1SG and 2SG. DERIVED from [+PARTICIPANT, +SINGULAR] feature condition.
The person restriction matches the empirical data: Fission applies ↔ stylistic LE is grammatical.
Stylistic LE requires inchoative context (vGO ∧ vBE). DERIVED from Fission's structural context condition.
Every verb that licenses stylistic LE has inchoative structure. DERIVED from the verb fragment.
Unmarked anticausatives block stylistic LE. DERIVED from the verb fragment: mejorar is unmarked and blocks LE.
Marked anticausatives license stylistic LE.
Optional SE-marking also licenses stylistic LE.
All verbs blocking stylistic LE are unmarked. DERIVED from the fragment data.
When Fission applies, the output clitic satisfies the PF marking condition (syncretic with reflexive), making SE optional.
The DAT-REFL syncretism that enables SE-optionality is present for exactly the persons where Fission applies.
The three clitic patterns (SE+CL, CL+LE, SE+CL+LE) are semantically identical because non-thematic Voice contributes no semantics. SE is purely a PF marker — its presence or absence is phonological, not semantic.
The empirical three-way synonymy follows: since Voice has no semantics, adding or removing SE doesn't change meaning.
Fission applies to 1SG in inchoative context.
Fission applies to 2SG in inchoative context.
Fission does NOT apply to 3SG (not [+PART]).
Fission does NOT apply in non-inchoative context (activity).
Fission does NOT apply in causative context (has vDO).
1SG Cl₁ is "me" (reflects [+AUTHOR]).
2SG Cl₁ is "te" (reflects [-AUTHOR]).
Cl₂ is always invariable "le".
Each verb individually checked against the inchoative requirement.