Antipassive-like structures in the Polish language and their aspectual restrictions Cover Image

Realizacja struktur typu antypasywnego w języku polskim oraz ich ograniczenia w zakresie aspektu czasownika
Antipassive-like structures in the Polish language and their aspectual restrictions

Author(s): Katarzyna Mroczyńska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: antipassivization; intransitive structure; syntax; lexicon; Polish; verb valency

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is the presentation of the process of antipassivization, based on thematerial culled from the National Corpus of Polish (NKJP). The realization of antipassive-like structures in Polish is closely linked to the multifunctional, polysemous element się.In this work we discuss the classification of various antipassive-like structures occurring in Polish, based on Janic’s doctoral dissertation (Janic 2013), and illustrate it withnumerous examples extracted from the NKJP. We also offer an explanation to certainaspectual restrictions in the occurrence of the antipassive-like structures, which may beseen in the corpus examples

  • Issue Year: 22/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 197-217
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish