Vortrag: Deriving auxiliary insertion in Czech verb periphrasis

Auxiliary verbs are argued to be repair items, that host the features that the main verb cannot obtain (cf. Chomsky 1957, Bjorkman 2011). Cross-linguistically, Fenger (2020) attested a tendency for the tense feature to be expressed on an auxiliary if it co-occurs with aspect, which is marked on the main verb. Slavic languages and their complex tense/aspect marking system therefore provide interesting data to further investigate this pattern. In this presentation, I examine the feature distribution in Czech verb periphrasis. First I analyse the features in the Czech verbal paradigm through minimal pairs. Modeling the features syntactically reveals morphological redundancies, that also pose problems for economy- and repair-based approaches to auxiliaries in syntax. To derive auxiliary insertion in Czech, I propose a re-analysis of the past tense as aspectual and synthetic instead of periphrastic (Todorovic 2016). Connecting the issue of auxiliary insertion to the question of Slavic tense and aspect marking thus yields insight into both topics.

- Bjorkman, Bronwyn Alma Moore (2011). “BE-ing default: The morphosyntax of auxiliaries”. PhD thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Chomsky, Noam (2002). "Syntactic structures". Mouton de Gruyter.
- Fenger, Paula (2020). “Words within Words: The Internal Syntax of Verbs”. PhD thesis. University of Connecticut.

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Tag: 22.11.2024
Anfangszeit: 15:35
Dauer: 00:30
Raum: 00A03 CNMS
Track: Theoretische Linguistik
Sprache: en

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