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On Polish connectives and particles followed by personal endings

Author(s): Marek Świdziński
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Summary/Abstract: In the contribution, various ways of syntactic description of those connectives and particles that are obligatorily followed by personal endings are discussed (e.g. czyżby “interrogative particle (in dubitative questions)", gdyby "if (unreal past)", żeby "in order to"). A number of solutions (inflexional, lexicographic, syntactic I, syntactic II) are considered. Their evaluation is made from the point of view of an automatic syntactic analysis. Priority of given to the last solution. Preteritive forms of verbs, such as, for example, przyszedłeś "you came, lit. come + Past + 2 person sing, masc,", miałem "I had» lit. have + Past + 1 person sing, masc.", usually described as agglutinative, are suggested here to be treated as analytic, i.e. containing two words: a past participle and an auxiliary. Needless to say, an auxiliary can always precede a participle, In particular, the above mentioned connectives and particles must link with the auxiliary.

  • Issue Year: 1981
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 273-284
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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