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The semantics of past participles
2023This dissertation proposes a new way of understanding the semantics of past participles, primarily in English. In some uses, past participles denote an event (e.g. 'fed' in 'The baby is being fed cheerios'), while in others the participle denotes a result state of an event of the kind denoted by the verb (e.g. 'fed' in 'The baby seemed well-fed'). This
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American Speech, 1980
IN HIS EXEMPLARY OBITUARY "Albert Henry Marckwardt" (Language 52 [1976]: 667-81), Archibald A. Hill recalls his close association with Marckwardt when the two of them were young men at the University of Michigan fifty years ago and remarks, "I remember.., .his amusedly asking me about the past participle of stride: 'Is it stridden?"' Hill then goes on ...
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IN HIS EXEMPLARY OBITUARY "Albert Henry Marckwardt" (Language 52 [1976]: 667-81), Archibald A. Hill recalls his close association with Marckwardt when the two of them were young men at the University of Michigan fifty years ago and remarks, "I remember.., .his amusedly asking me about the past participle of stride: 'Is it stridden?"' Hill then goes on ...
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2020
In this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in Catalan is analyzed on the basis of newly collected data as ...
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In this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in Catalan is analyzed on the basis of newly collected data as ...
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The Past Participle of Subsequent Action
Novum Testamentum, 1975In Biblica 5I (I970) 235 f. I hope I proved the existence of a Greek "aorist participle of subsequent action." This construction, about which MOULTON had been sceptical, is important for Acts xvi 6 (xOu0OevrSq) and without it RAMSAY'S South Galatian theory, in which I firmly believe, runs into difficult waters.
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2006
Past participle agreement phenomena are widespread in Romance. Although the picture is somewhat fragmented when all the various Romance dialects are taken into consideration,1 certain basic trends are readily observable across the standard languages, and it is these that have provided the essential data feeding into the participle agreement diagnostic ...
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Past participle agreement phenomena are widespread in Romance. Although the picture is somewhat fragmented when all the various Romance dialects are taken into consideration,1 certain basic trends are readily observable across the standard languages, and it is these that have provided the essential data feeding into the participle agreement diagnostic ...
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Facets of Romance past participle agreement
1989Abstract It is usual to say that in (2) and (3), the past participle agrees with the clitic or Wh-phrase, much as the auxiliary ‘a’ in (1)-(3) is said to agree with the subject NP ‘Paul’. We shall argue, however, that this parallelism is only partially valid and that there is a significant distinction to be drawn between the two types of
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