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| Autor/inn/en | Sigurjónsdóttir, Sigrídur; Maling, Joan |
|---|---|
| Titel | From passive to active: diachronic change in impersonal constructions. |
| Quelle | In: Linguistische Berichte, (2019) Sonderheft 26, S. 99-124 |
| Beigaben | Anmerkungen; Tabellen 7 |
| Sprache | englisch; mehrsprachige Zitate |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0024-3930 |
| Schlagwörter | Island; Passiv; Syntax; Polnisch; Transitivität; Passiv; Syntax; Polnisch; Transitivität; Island |
| Abstract | Maling/Sigurjónsdóttir (2002) argued that so-called "impersonal passives" are in principle syntactically ambiguous; they can be analyzed either as canonical passives or as impersonal actives containing a null subject. The syntactic behavior of such constructions can change over time as a result of this ambiguity, as shown by the diachrony of the Irish autonomous form, the Polish -no/to construction, and the New Transitive Impersonal (NTI) which is developing in Icelandic. The authors argue that all three are accusative-assigning participial constructions which developed from canonical passives, but now display the syntactic properties of an active impersonal construction. On the other hand, the syntactic behavior of the Ukrainian -no/to construction, for example, shows that even a construction in which a transitive verb continues to govern an accusative object may be categorized as syntactically passive. In this paper, the authors focus on the on-going development of the NTI construction in Icelandic. The NTI is a syntactic innovation that surfaced most noticeably in the speech of children and teenagers in the late 20th century and is now rapidly gaining ground. The proper syntactic analysis of the NTI has been the subject of lively debate among linguists. In this paper, the authors compare its syntactic properties with the Polish -no/to construction, where the reanalysis from a canonical passive to an active impersonal construction has been completed, and review evidence that the NTI developed as an extension of the impersonal passive of intransitive verbs, a construction which is part of the standard language. (Verlag, adapt.). |
| Erfasst von | Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg |
| Update | 2022/2 |
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