Title The Underspecification of Past Participles : On the Identity of Passive and Perfect(ive) Participles / Dennis Wegner

Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (368 pages) Series Studia grammatica ; 83 Studia grammatica ; 83. Contents Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Empirical data -- 3. Past participial (non- )identity in the literature -- 4. A compositional approach to the identity of past participles -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index Summary Are the past participial forms that occur in passive and perfect periphrases substantially identical or should they rather be distinguished into accidentally homophonous passive and perfect(ive) participles? This book discusses the long-standing mystery of past participial (non- )identity on the basis of a broad range of synchronic data from Germanic and Romance, eventually focussing on German and English as these draw the most relevant distinctions (e.g. auxiliary alternation, a passive auxiliary that is not BE). Together with some contrastive insights from Slavic as well as the diachrony of passive and perfect periphrases, this clearly points to an identity-view. The novel approach that is laid out suggests that past participles conflate diathetic and aspectual properties. The former cause the suppression of an external argument, whereas the latter impose event-structure sensitive perfectivity, which only induces the completion of a situation if the underlying eventuality denotes a simple change of state. An approach along these lines sheds light on the intricate properties of past participles and the auxiliaries they occur with, the determinants of auxiliary selection as well as the interplay of argument and event structure Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-352) and index Notes In English Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019) Subject Germanic languages -- Participle Romance languages -- Participle LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics. Romance languages -- Participle Form Electronic book ISBN 9783110616149 3110616149 9783110613513 3110613514 9783110613667 3110613662

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