By-fráze v českém participiálním pasivu (cesta k analýze pasiva)

• Authors: Petr Karlík

Title variants

EN

The by-phrase in the Czech passive participle (one way toward the analysis of the passive)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study discusses the three probably most influential theories of the passive in generative grammar: Chomsky (1957), Jaeggli (1986) and Collins (2005), aiming to evaluate their proposed analyses of the passive structure in terms of their adequacy with regard to the syntactic and semantic properties of the by-phrase in the Czech long passive, i.e. the structure “be – passive participle – DP with instrumental case (= by-phrase)”. It is shown that from this perspective, the most adequate theory of the verbal passive is the one by Collins (2005; 2018b), called “smuggling analysis”. This is because it naturally explains the thematic interpretation of the by-phrase and determines its distribution in the passive structure. The smuggling analysis predicts that the Czech by-phrase (= DP with instrumental case) is the external argument and has the same semantic/thematic interpretation as the [Spec, vP]-argument of the active clause. This theory is entirely consistent with other principles of generative grammar, especially with the UTAH hypothesis (Baker, 1988).

Keywords

CS

by-fráze; data z češtiny; pasivní struktura; pasivní participium

EN

by-phrase; Czech data; passive participle; passive structure

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 103
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 97-112
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Petr  Karlík

• Naše řeč, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic