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The Underspecification of Past Participles - On the Identity of Passive and Perfect(ive) Participles (Paperback)
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The Underspecification of Past Participles - On the Identity of Passive and Perfect(ive) Participles (Paperback)
Series: Studia grammatica
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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.
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