Eintrag

Titel

The Underspecifikation of Past Participles. On the Identy of Passive and Perfect(ive) Participles

Personen

Dennis Wegner

Jahr

2019

Typ

Monographie

Verlag

de Gruyter

Ort

Berlin; Boston, Mass.

ISBN

978-3-11-061351-3

Reihe

Studia Grammatica

Band

83

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch

Schlagwörter

Partizip
Passiv
Perfekt

Abstract

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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