Root-based or lexicalist approach in verbal morpho-syntax: Polish non-active morphology

• Authors: Anna Malicka-Kleparska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The text presents two case studies from the area of Polish middle voice morpho-syntax. One case concerns anticausatives formed with the particle się and their simpler counterparts based on identical roots. The other – "clear" alternating frame verbs, their prefixed correspondents and middle formations based on the same roots. The first case strikes us as problematic for both modern approaches to morpho-syntax in generative grammar – the lexicalist approach and the root based construction approach. It turns out to be problematic for the first model only, if certain proposals (in particular Alexiadou and Doron 2012) concerning non-active morpho-syntax are discarded. The second case shows, however, that certain data cannot be explained within the root based grammar, while the lexicalist mechanisms account for them naturally. Polish morpho-syntax calls for introducing clear demarcation lines between the data that can be rendered by syntactic mechanisms and such which require lexical analyses and "productivity" of the data cannot provide such a boundary. They need to be drawn on an empirical basis.

Keywords

EN

anticausative; middle voice; reflexive; morpho-syntax; root

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 49
• Pages: 531-555

Dates

published

2013

received

2013-07-04

revised

2013-11-06

accepted

2013-11-08

Contributors

author

Anna Malicka-Kleparska

• Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/psicl-2013-0020