A comparison of the modal dać się structure with the dispositional middle in Polish

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dc.contributor.authorBondaruk, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T08:47:02Z
dc.date.available2024-05-22T08:47:02Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe paper compares the modal dać się structure with the dispositional middle in Polish. It is argued that the two structures are similar as regards argument realization, i.e. in both constructions, the theme argument appears in the structural subject position. The two structures also have a dispositional meaning in common. However, they show a number of differences. They differ in the presence of a syntactically active agent, their aspectual properties, the availability of episodic interpretations, the obligatory presence of an adverbial modifier, and verb class restrictions. Although these differences seem to argue against a common syntactic derivation for the two structures analysed here, they do not preclude classifying the modal dać się structure as a subtype of the dispositional middle. If middles are seen as a notional category, understood as a special meaning that different grammatical structures can have, along the lines postulated by Condoravdi (1989), then the modal dać się structure can be subsumed under the label of middle. In fact, it is argued that the modal dać się structure represents Type II middles in Ackema and Schoorlemmer’s (2005) typology, and it shows properties typical of lassen-middles in German (Pitteroff 2014).
dc.identifier.citation"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2015, Vol. 1, pp. 43-63
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/lingbaw.5623
dc.identifier.issn2450-5188
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7160
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KUL
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectdispositional middles
dc.subjectlassen-middles
dc.subjectgeneric interpretation
dc.subjectdispositional meaning
dc.subject(anti-)causative
dc.subjectimplied agent
dc.subjectaspect
dc.titleA comparison of the modal dać się structure with the dispositional middle in Polish
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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