Danish passives and subject positions as a mood system

Heltoft, Lars; Jakobsen, Lisbeth Falster

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“…Heltoft and Jakobsen () analyze the ‐s ‐suffix in Danish as a mood marker and they claim that the ‐s adds a layer of non‐subjective mood. According to them, the s ‐passive is used when the speaker wants to report on an event in an objective way, without the speakers own point of view.…”

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“…According to them, the s ‐passive is used when the speaker wants to report on an event in an objective way, without the speakers own point of view. According to Heltoft and Jakobsen (), the non‐subjective mood can be seen in the following contexts:…”

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“…In section I will discuss linearization principles, and the problem posed by the morphological passive for the mirror principle. In section and , I discuss two previous accounts of the passive ‐s in Scandinavian, Julien () and Heltoft and Jakobsen (). Both of these accounts get around the mirror paradox by saying that the passive ‐s is not a Voice‐marker.…”

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The role of tense‐copying and syncretism in the licensing of morphological passives in the nordic languages

Lundquist

2015

Studia Linguistica

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This paper discusses the morphological passive (the so-called -s(t) passive) in Swedish, Danish, Bokm al and Nynorsk. There are two problematic aspects about the morphological passive: (1) in all the languages mentioned except Swedish, it is restricted to certain tenses and/or conjugation classes, and (2) from a theoretical perspective, it constitutes what looks like a mirror violation: the passive voice-marker surfaces outside of the tense-marker, even though it arguably originates between tense and the lexical verb. I argue that previous analyses of the passive -s(t) as either a clitic realizing the external argument (Julien 2007), or as a mood marker (Heltoft and Jakobsen 1996) can neither explain the tense/declension class restrictions, nor the semantics of the -s(t)-passive. I argue instead that morphological passives in Danish, Bokm al and Nynorsk never contain a tense projection, and they are licensed in finite contexts when the finite form is form-identical with a non-finite form, that "fools" the syntax in the C-phase of the clause (where at least some of the underlying syntactic features of the lexical items are no longer active). In Swedish on the other hand, the tensed forms are licensed through Tense-copying, which is known to exist in Swedish to a much higher degree than in the other Scandinavian languages (Wiklund 2007). My proposal thus gets around the mirror-violation, and manages to relate the variation in restrictions on morphological passives to other familiar differences between the languages, namely differences in conjugation classes and the availability of tense copying.

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The role of tense‐copying and syncretism in the licensing of morphological passives in the nordic languages

Lundquist

2015

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“…La idea de este estudio surgió a partir de las nociones de modalidad subjetiva y modalidad objetiva propuestas por Heltoft & Falster Jakobsen (1996) para analizar las dos construcciones pasivas del danés, y luego aplicadas también a la pasiva del francés por Herslund (1997Herslund ( , 2001. En mi intento por aplicar el mismo análisis para la voz pasiva en español, descubrí que los conceptos de modalidad subjetiva y modalidad objetiva no podían explicar la diferencia entre la construcción pasiva perifrástica y la construcción pasiva refleja, 5 tal como se había postulado para el danés y el francés, pero estos conceptos podían explicar el contraste entre las construcciones pasivas reflejas de lectura generalizadora y otras construcciones generalizadoras del español.…”

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Generalizaciones y evidencialidad en español

Fernández¹

2008

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Normally, European languages are considered to express evidentiality only by lexical means, while numerous non-Indo-European languages present specific grammatical items which function as evidential markers. In recent years, numerous studies have pointed out the existence of evidential markers in various Indo-European languages, included Spanish. This article intends to be another contribution to the study of evidentiality in Spanish.My claim is that generalizations expressed with the particle se, on the one hand, and generalizing constructions with uno, 2nd person singular and 3rd person plural, on the other hand, contrast with each other in terms of evidentiality. While the latter constructions express a generalization based on the speaker's personal experience, the se-construction refers to established rules or hearsay. IntroducciónEn este trabajo intentaré demostrar que una serie de construcciones 1 del español que expresan una generalización difieren entre sí, entre otras cosas, por el tipo de evidencialidad que presentan. También explicaré las razones semánticas que permiten las diferentes interpretaciones evidenciales.Las construcciones que tendré en cuenta son las siguientes: -construcciones con se de lectura generalizadora, normalmente denominadas "pasivas reflejas" o "impersonales", tales como:(1) Hoy la medicina se ejerce en grandes instituciones hospitalarias y clínicas.(MADRID: 166, 3)(2) Solamente se especializan en un tema y se acabó. No se les puede hablar de más. (MADRID: 179,8)

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“…Heltoft & Jakobsen (1996) and Engdahl (2001) focus on the difference between the synthetic and periphrastic passive constructions. Heltoft & Jakobsen (1996) and Engdahl (2001) focus on the difference between the synthetic and periphrastic passive constructions.…”

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Perfect and periphrastic passive constructions in Danish

Bjerre¹,

Bjerre²

2007

Nord J Linguist

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This paper gives an account of the event and argument structure of past participles, and the linking between argument structure and valence structure. It further accounts for how participles form perfect and passive constructions with auxiliaries. We assume that the same participle form is used in both types of construction. Our claim is that the valence structure of a past participle is predictable from its semantic type, and that the valence structure predicts which auxiliary a past participle combines with in perfect constructions and whether the past participle may occur in passive constructions. Our approach sets itself apart from similar approaches

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Danish passives and subject positions as a mood system

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The role of tense‐copying and syncretism in the licensing of morphological passives in the nordic languages

The role of tense‐copying and syncretism in the licensing of morphological passives in the nordic languages

Generalizaciones y evidencialidad en español

Perfect and periphrastic passive constructions in Danish

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