The paper discusses Czech analytic passive structures and proposes its formal in a generai Minimaiist frameworlc. We argue that the specific properties of the Czech passive structures are the result of several factors. First, it is the nature and position of the Czech auxiliary verb byt ('be') which is inserted into the functional projection of v* with the result of bioclcing the accusative Case and Agent theta role assignment in SPEC(v*). Then we discuss the nature of the passive participle. We argue that the passive participle is a syntactically complex element consisting of the verbal stem and adjectival suffix. In the initial phase of derivation the verbal stem constitutes the head of the verbal projection and merges with the theta object. In the next phase, however, the adjectival suffix and the auxiliary be project into the phrase corresponding to the Czech structure with copula and predicate adjective. The phase by phase derivation in combination with the systematic multilevel Insertion of syntactic Clements then explain the specific inflectional morphology as well as Interpretation with no further stipulations.

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This paper addresses the classification of morphemes in a generative framework. Referring to existing theoretical models of generative morphosyntax (e.g. Distributed Morphology), it demonstrates that a traditional long-standing taxonomic distinction reflects formal, i.e. structural (and derivational) distinctions. Using the well-known examples of the English multi-functional nominalizer -ing and some parallel data in Czech, the study reinterprets morphological taxonomy in terms of three levels, namely the (i) lexical, (ii) syntactic and (iii) post-syntactic insertion of grammatical formatives. It shows that the level of insertion in a syntactic derivation results in predictable (and attested) diagnostics for the multi-morpheme exponents.