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Circumfixed causatives in Polish against a panorama of active and non-active voice morphology

  • Anna Malicka-Kleparska
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Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency
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Abstract

This paper deals with an interesting problem of circumfixed causatives in Polish, which do not behave with respect to anticausatives in the way causative structures function in other (European) languages. This subclass of causatives does not have corresponding synthetic (single-word) anticausatives, while other causatives in Polish possess such correspondents. We propose to explain this situation within the model of root based construction morphology, where causatives assume no derivational connection with other verbs: Nevertheless they arise from the substructures resulting in causative meaning , which are shared with anticausatives. The substructures, together with the delimited class of roots common to causatives and anticausatives, allow us to account for the similarities in the alternating part of the material. The adverse relationship that the circumfixed causatives have with the synthetic anticausatives will be accounted for with the use of the distinction into Active voice and Non-active voice verbal structures, which has been proposed within the root-based morpho-syntax byAlexiadou and Doron (2012).

Abstract

This paper deals with an interesting problem of circumfixed causatives in Polish, which do not behave with respect to anticausatives in the way causative structures function in other (European) languages. This subclass of causatives does not have corresponding synthetic (single-word) anticausatives, while other causatives in Polish possess such correspondents. We propose to explain this situation within the model of root based construction morphology, where causatives assume no derivational connection with other verbs: Nevertheless they arise from the substructures resulting in causative meaning , which are shared with anticausatives. The substructures, together with the delimited class of roots common to causatives and anticausatives, allow us to account for the similarities in the alternating part of the material. The adverse relationship that the circumfixed causatives have with the synthetic anticausatives will be accounted for with the use of the distinction into Active voice and Non-active voice verbal structures, which has been proposed within the root-based morpho-syntax byAlexiadou and Doron (2012).

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu In Memoriam vii
  4. Introduction. Issues in contrastive valency studies 1
  5. Part I. Argument coding
  6. Multiple case binding – The principled underspecification of case exponency 27
  7. Infinitives 83
  8. A labeling system for valency 109
  9. Non-canonical valency patterns in Basque, variation and evolution 151
  10. Part II. Valency rearranging alternations
  11. Exploring the domain of ditransitive constructions 177
  12. Cognate constructions in Italian and beyond 219
  13. Object omission and the semantics of predicates in Italian in a comparative perspective 251
  14. On animacy restrictions for the null object in Brazilian Portuguese 275
  15. Part III. Voice and valency changing (uncoded/coded) alternations and markers
  16. Between Passive and Middle 297
  17. Valency alternations between inflection and derivation 327
  18. Pronominal verbs across European languages 375
  19. Semantic constraints on the reflexive/non-reflexive alternation of Romanian unaccusatives 407
  20. Circumfixed causatives in Polish against a panorama of active and non-active voice morphology 431
  21. Language index 471
  22. Subject index 473
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.237.14mal

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu In Memoriam vii
  4. Introduction. Issues in contrastive valency studies 1
  5. Part I. Argument coding
  6. Multiple case binding – The principled underspecification of case exponency 27
  7. Infinitives 83
  8. A labeling system for valency 109
  9. Non-canonical valency patterns in Basque, variation and evolution 151
  10. Part II. Valency rearranging alternations
  11. Exploring the domain of ditransitive constructions 177
  12. Cognate constructions in Italian and beyond 219
  13. Object omission and the semantics of predicates in Italian in a comparative perspective 251
  14. On animacy restrictions for the null object in Brazilian Portuguese 275
  15. Part III. Voice and valency changing (uncoded/coded) alternations and markers
  16. Between Passive and Middle 297
  17. Valency alternations between inflection and derivation 327
  18. Pronominal verbs across European languages 375
  19. Semantic constraints on the reflexive/non-reflexive alternation of Romanian unaccusatives 407
  20. Circumfixed causatives in Polish against a panorama of active and non-active voice morphology 431
  21. Language index 471
  22. Subject index 473
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