La Construcción Preposicional Con Mirar: Un Análisis Sintáctico-Semántico

this paper examines the prepositional construction with the spanish verb mirar "to look". the high frequency of the intransitive construction "mirar + locative prepositional phrase (pp)" evidences the affinity between mirar and the semantic field of motion verbs. on the basis of an empirical analysis of authentic text material, light is shed upon the hybrid statute of the locative pps that occur with mirar. it is shown that, depending on their meaning, these locative pps take on different syntactic functions. three semantic categories, which display their own syntactic behaviour, can be distinguished: i) the dynamic locative pps that indicate the object of perception or percept (prepositional complement); ii) the dynamic pps that denote the trajectory or path of gaze (prepositional complement or adjunct) and iii) the static pps that help localize the perceiver or the percept (adjunct).