Analytic Passives in Czech
Lida Veselovska, Petr Karlík
January 2004
 

Present transformational generative grammar of a Chomskyan type concentrates on formal properties and characteristics of passive structures which have not yet been in the centre of attention of Czech linguistics. In this paper we discuss the formal properties of the Czech analytic passive structures using the contemporary stage of development of the Chomskyan framework. That is, different types of syntactic passives are generated differently by exploiting the different possibilities of derivation by phase. Our analysis of passives is thus also meant to show that even languages with rich inflection and relatively free constituent order, like Czech, can successfully be described in terms of generative grammar, and that such an analysis is not merely an application of it, but can contribute to the development of the general linguistic theory as well.
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Reference: lingbuzz/003608
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Published in: Zeitschrift für Slawistik 49 (2) 2004: 163–235
keywords: czech passives, passive vs. past participles, czech clitics, past czech auxiliary, grammatical morphemes, instrumental case, post-syntactic insertion, post-syntactic derivation, semantics, morphology, syntax, morphology, syntax
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