Theoretical implications of the prefixation of Polish change of state verbs

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ID21240017
AuthorsAnna Malicka-Kleparska (0000-0002-9344-7682, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume9
Issue1
Publication date2023-12-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOpen Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2300-9969 • E-ISSN: 2300-9969
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/opli-2022-0250
OpenAlexW4390118455
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited41

The text is devoted to a rarely described and analysed problem of a gap in the distribution of aspectual prefixes in Polish. Lexical prefixes do not appear as parts of word-internal morphology of synthetic change of state (COS) verbs suffixed with verbalizing morphemes - e -/- ej -, - ną -, and - owa -. The analysis presented below treats such COS verbs as homonymous pairs of lexical items. The telic homonym is equipped with the result phrase (RP) headed by the zero morpheme, whose appearance blocks the insertion of any other telicizing morpheme in the form of a lexical prefix. The zero morpheme is selected by the verbalizers peculiar to COS verbs of synthetic type. The atelic homonym does not have the RP in its structure and, in consequence, does not include a structural position for telicizing heads in the form of lexical prefixes to be ever inserted. The model strongly supports the distinction between the concepts of telicity and perfectivity in Polish, and by extrapolation – in other Slavic languages

Affix · Allomorph · Comparative linguistics · Lexical definition · Linguistics · Morpheme · Prefix · Slavic languages · Sociology · Computer Science · Language and Culture · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Mathematics · Philosophy

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