The categorial, argument structural and aspectual indeterminacy of past participles: A holistic approach

IF 0.6 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Dennis Wegner
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Abstract The present paper argues that all kinds of verbal and adjectival instantiations of past participles have a common core: a participial head associated with an argument structural effect, on the one hand, and an aspectual contribution, on the other. The former amounts to the suppression of an external argument (if present), which existentially binds the semantic role associated with this argument, and the latter renders simple event structures with change-of-state semantics (and only those) perfective. Based on these ingredients (and the contribution of the auxiliary have, if present), it is not just possible to account for how past participles elicit periphrastic passive as well as perfect configurations, but crucially also for their bare (i. e. auxiliaryless) occurrences in a range of distributions: stative passives, stative perfects, absolute clauses, pre- and postnominal occurrences, and adverbial clauses. These, in turn, differ in their properties on the basis of (a) the presence of a stativising PredP, (b) the availability of an adjectival head that triggers λ-abstraction of an internal argument, and (c) the complexity of the underlying verbal structure in terms of the availability of vP. This eventually allows for a ‘holistic’ approach to the flexibility of past participles that delineates a common core supplemented by distinct functional surroundings.
过去分词的范畴、论证结构和方面的不确定性:一种整体方法
摘要本文认为,过去分词的各种动词和形容词实例化都有一个共同的核心:一方面是与论点结构效应相关的分词头,另一方面是对方面的贡献。前者相当于对外部论点(如果存在)的抑制,它在存在上绑定了与该论点相关的语义角色,而后者使具有状态变化语义的简单事件结构(并且只有那些)是完美的。基于这些成分(以及助词的贡献,如果存在的话),不仅可以解释过去分词是如何引发周边被动和完美配置的,而且至关重要的是,还可以解释它们的裸露(即。 无助词)在一系列分布中的出现:静态被动语态、静态完成语、绝对从句、名词前和名词后出现以及状语从句。反过来,它们的性质不同,这是基于(a)静态PredP的存在,(b)触发内部论点的λ抽象的形容词头的可用性,以及(c)就vP的可用性而言,潜在言语结构的复杂性。这最终允许对过去分词的灵活性采取“整体”方法,描绘出一个由不同的功能环境补充的共同核心。
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期刊介绍: The aim of the journal is to promote linguistic research by publishing high-quality contributions and thematic special issues from all fields and trends of modern linguistics. In addition to articles and reviews, the journal also features contributions to discussions on current controversies in the field as well as overview articles outlining the state-of-the art of relevant research paradigms. Topics: -General Linguistics -Language Typology -Language acquisition, language change and synchronic variation -Empirical linguistics: experimental and corpus-based research -Contributions to theory-building
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