The Czech able

Vol.66,No.2(2018)

Lucie Taraldsen Medová

https://doi.org/10.5817/LB2018-2-4

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/138786

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Abstract
In the article, I look at two constructions that roughly correspond to the English morpheme -ABLE: the first is a synthetic form based on a verb, in which the root is followed by the suffix TEL and the suffix N, while the other is an analytic form with the verb in the infinitive and a form of the verb GIVE and an impersonal SE. I argue for a particular nanosyntactic view of the THEME-TEL-N combination such that the morphemes are a particular spell out of the features that correspond to the paraphrase with the verb GIVE and the morpheme SE.

Keywords:
Czech; morphology; nanosyntax; -ABLE

Pages:
37–46
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