The Underspecification of Past Participles On the Identity of Passive and Perfect(ive) Participles Dennis Wegner.
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TextSeries: Studia grammatica ; 83.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (368 pages)ISBN: 9783110616149; 3110616149; 9783110613513; 3110613514; 9783110613667; 3110613662Subject(s): Germanic languages -- Participle | Romance languages -- Participle | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics | Romance languages -- ParticipleGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. DDC classification: 410 LOC classification: PD74 | .W44 2019Online resources: EBSCOhost 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.
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.
In English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-352) and index.
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