Thebe‐auxiliary's categorial status in Old Russian1

Autor:	Hakyung Jung
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language History media_common.quotation_subject South Slavic languages Present tense Verb Subject pronoun Language and Linguistics Linguistics Agreement History and Philosophy of Science Subject (grammar) Auxiliary verb Slavic languages media_common
Zdroj:	Studia Linguistica. 74:613-644
ISSN:	1467-9582 0039-3193
DOI:	10.1111/stul.12136
Popis:	This article proposes that the present tense forms of the be-auxiliary byti (AUX) in Old Russian should be identified as weak pronouns, based on their prosodic, morphological, and syntactic properties. The loss of AUX in Old Russian, which distinguishes East Slavic from West and South Slavic languages, is ascribed to the competition between AUX and strong subject pronouns as a consequence of the reanalysis of AUX as a weak subject pronoun. This reanalysis was triggered by the early loss of synthetic past tenses in Old Russian. The AUX's position to the right of pronominal clitics indicates that the AUX remains in its initial merge position either as an auxiliary verb or as a subject pronoun. The co-occurrence of AUXin situ and a null subject in Old Russian implies that rich verbal agreement and null subjects are unrelated with verb raising to I0.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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