Derivatives based on participles in Irish and Polish and the inflection–derivation distinction

Greenberg’s Universal 28 says that ‘if both the derivation and inflection follow the root, or they both precede the root, the derivation is always between the root and the inflection’ (Greenberg 1966: 93). Booij (1994: 27) undermines this by allowing inherent inflection to feed derivation. There is...

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Main Author: Maria Bloch-Trojnar
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Published: The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin 2015-12-01
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description Greenberg’s Universal 28 says that ‘if both the derivation and inflection follow the root, or they both precede the root, the derivation is always between the root and the inflection’ (Greenberg 1966: 93). Booij (1994: 27) undermines this by allowing inherent inflection to feed derivation. There is abundant literature showing that inherent inflection can feed derivation in Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages (Booij 1994, 1996, Chapman 1996, Rainer 1996, Cetnarowska 1999). The aim of this paper is to describe and compare derivational categories related to participle forms in Irish and Polish. These include among others agent nouns, adjectives of tendency/inclination, resultative passive adjectives and facilitative adjectives. Stump (2005: 52) points out that the terms present and past participle are, in fact, misnomers since participles are uninflected for tense, and they should be regarded as stems conveying aspect information plus the lexical information of the root. The existence of derivatives based on inflected forms is usually taken as evidence against the inflection-derivation dichotomy, and in favour of a tripartition into contextual inflection, inherent inflection and derivation. The paper addresses the theoretical ramifications of the existence of such derivatives for inferential-realisational approaches (Stump 2001), such as for example Beard’s (1995) Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology, which separates the operations on the grammatical (morpholexical and morphosyntactic) features and operations responsible for the morphophonological modification of the root/stem.
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spelling doaj-art-a9b05912e55e44b7a06e00313d5af3072025-01-21T05:09:19ZengThe John Paul II Catholic University of LublinLingBaW2450-51882015-12-011110.31743/lingbaw.5622Derivatives based on participles in Irish and Polish and the inflection–derivation distinctionMaria Bloch-Trojnar0John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Greenberg’s Universal 28 says that ‘if both the derivation and inflection follow the root, or they both precede the root, the derivation is always between the root and the inflection’ (Greenberg 1966: 93). Booij (1994: 27) undermines this by allowing inherent inflection to feed derivation. There is abundant literature showing that inherent inflection can feed derivation in Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages (Booij 1994, 1996, Chapman 1996, Rainer 1996, Cetnarowska 1999). The aim of this paper is to describe and compare derivational categories related to participle forms in Irish and Polish. These include among others agent nouns, adjectives of tendency/inclination, resultative passive adjectives and facilitative adjectives. Stump (2005: 52) points out that the terms present and past participle are, in fact, misnomers since participles are uninflected for tense, and they should be regarded as stems conveying aspect information plus the lexical information of the root. The existence of derivatives based on inflected forms is usually taken as evidence against the inflection-derivation dichotomy, and in favour of a tripartition into contextual inflection, inherent inflection and derivation. The paper addresses the theoretical ramifications of the existence of such derivatives for inferential-realisational approaches (Stump 2001), such as for example Beard’s (1995) Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology, which separates the operations on the grammatical (morpholexical and morphosyntactic) features and operations responsible for the morphophonological modification of the root/stem. https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/5622inherent inflectioninflection feeding derivationIrishparticiple
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Derivatives based on participles in Irish and Polish and the inflection–derivation distinction
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inherent inflection
inflection feeding derivation
Irish
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title Derivatives based on participles in Irish and Polish and the inflection–derivation distinction
title_full Derivatives based on participles in Irish and Polish and the inflection–derivation distinction
title_fullStr Derivatives based on participles in Irish and Polish and the inflection–derivation distinction
title_full_unstemmed Derivatives based on participles in Irish and Polish and the inflection–derivation distinction
title_short Derivatives based on participles in Irish and Polish and the inflection–derivation distinction
title_sort derivatives based on participles in irish and polish and the inflection derivation distinction
topic inherent inflection
inflection feeding derivation
Irish
participle
url https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/5622
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