The major aim of this paper consists in determining the aspectual constraints affecting absolute small clauses (ASCs) headed by a past participle. A detailed analysis of these constructions seems to indicate that there are enough arguments to postulate the existence of two types of ASCs: those having an NP direct internal argument (AASCs), and those in which this NP is phonetically unrealized (PASCs). The different temporal interpretation that these two types of ASCs can adopt is one of the factors that more clearly supports this distinction. From the analysis of the aspectual properties of ASCs, the following generalization arises: AASCs can only be formed by eventive predicates, whereas PASCs are not affected by these aspectual restrictions. Finally, an implementation of aspectual information in HPSG so as to capture our results is proposed. Key words: absolute small clauses, aspectual analysis, HPSG. Resum. Les propietats aspectuals de les oracions reduïdes absolutes L'objectiu prin...

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