The Syntax Of Compound Tenses In Slavic Krzysztof Migdalski by Krzysztof Migdalski 9789076864990, 9076864993 instant download after payment.

he Syntax of Compound Tenses
in Slavic
This dissertation examines the syntax of compound tenses in Slavic. It takes
into account their diachronic development from Old Church Slavonic to the
current stages. Slavic languages use a number of compound tense
constructions that are not found in many other Indo-European language
groups. They also exhibit a wide range of morphologically diverse participles.
Hence, their investigation leads to a verification of some common
assumptions concerning the properties and structure of compound tenses.
The dissertation explores the constructions formed with the l-participle and the
auxiliary ‘be’. The l-participle shows agreement with the subject, and is
claimed to undergo XP movement to SpecTP in order to check the phi-features
of T. This structure is contrasted with the compound tense formed with the
auxiliary ‘have’ and the past/passive participle, which has been completely
grammaticalized in Germanic and Romance languages, but in Slavic it has
fully developed only in Kashubian and Macedonian.
Special attention is given to the question of typological differences among
Slavic languages, especially with respect to the inventory of compound tenses
and auxiliary cliticization. It is assumed that the variation arose because of an
overlap in marking aspectual distinctions by both aspectual morphology and
aspectual past tenses in Proto Slavic and Old Church Slavonic. One way to
remove this overlap was a morphological reduction of auxiliaries into clitics
and suffixes. It is demonstrated that this reduction is reflected in syntax, and
leads to a reanalysis of l-participle raising as a head movement operation.