Palabras clave Resumen - ELiES

ConclusionsMoreover, the description of the fulfillment verbs LFs allowed us to observethat both entity nouns as well as situation nouns belong to this group (animal nouns areexcluded, apart from some exceptions). Domain features of these nouns (Ls) weredefined: ‘function’, ‘purpose’ and ‘utility’ (for ENTITIES), and ‘what is normallyexpected of L?’ for SITUATION nouns.Chapter 3 looks into support verbs. One key finding is that among these LFs,Func differs semantically from Oper and Labor. The domain feature imposed byFunc 0 is ‘L exist by doing something in some way’, as in cae la lluvia (rain falls),sopla el viento (wind blows), arde la llama (flame burns), brilla la luz (light shines).Oper and Labor, however, require their bases to be predicates usually having anequivalent verb. The term abstract noun is applied to those nouns that belong to theOper domain. The feature domain that Oper and Labor impose is an ‘actionperformed by somebody’ (dar una vuelta, to go for a walk; hacer una advertencia, towarn somebody), a ‘property that somebody has’ (tener capacidad, to have an ability)or a ‘situation that is experimented’ (tener frío, to be cold). When the predicate refers toan action, it means a) a change of state in one of the actants (ocupación de un país,occupation of a country, implies país ocupado, occupied country); b) a new actantbegins to exist (ha llegado la concesión del ministerio, concession from the ministryhas arrived); c) the same result or effect of the action (el grito de Elena, the scream ofHelen).Chapter 4 shows that some situation nouns from the support verbs domain(encontrar el amor, to find the love; esbozar una sonrisa, to crack a smile; lanzar unacarcajada, burst into laughter) and some situation nouns form the fulfillment verbsdomain (arrancar un motor, to start the engine; prender la cerilla, to light a match,pararse el tren, stop (the train)) belong to the phasal verbs domain. The domainfeatures of phasal nouns of support verbs domain are the following: ‘it can last’ (nounswith this feature combine with durar (to last), ‘it takes place during/for’ (nouns withthis feature combine with durante (during/for) and ‘it is punctual’ (for which there is anoverlap between IncepFunc0 and Func 0 ).The presence or absence of each of these domain features was useful todistinguish a) punctual nouns, which designate instantaneous realities (rayo, ray;chispa, spark; chirrido, creak), which do not combine with durar or durante and forwhich IncepFunc0 and Func 0 overlap; b) last nouns, which designate realities that lastfor some time (tormenta, storm; enfermedad, illness; crisis, crisis) and which combine435