A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans
The periphrastic past tense of Afrikaans, involving the auxiliary het, is compared with its ancestor construction in Dutch. I argue that the situation in Afrikaans provides support for the analysis of Germanic verb clusters in Zwart (2017), where periphrastic verb forms occupy cells in morphological...
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| description | The periphrastic past tense of Afrikaans, involving the auxiliary het, is compared with its ancestor construction in Dutch. I argue that the situation in Afrikaans provides support for the analysis of Germanic verb clusters in Zwart (2017), where periphrastic verb forms occupy cells in morphological paradigms, and enter the syntax only after the syntactic derivation has run its course. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59c54024e9b845eb88c79fe406a6a3572023-04-03T10:38:55ZafrStellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics1027-34172223-99362018-01-014811810.5774/48-0-276A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans Jan-Wouter Zwart 0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2331-5481University of GroningenThe periphrastic past tense of Afrikaans, involving the auxiliary het, is compared with its ancestor construction in Dutch. I argue that the situation in Afrikaans provides support for the analysis of Germanic verb clusters in Zwart (2017), where periphrastic verb forms occupy cells in morphological paradigms, and enter the syntax only after the syntactic derivation has run its course.https://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/276minimalismperiphrasisperiphrastic pastauxiliary |
| spellingShingle | Jan-Wouter Zwart A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics minimalism periphrasis periphrastic past auxiliary |
| title | A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans |
| title_full | A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans |
| title_fullStr | A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans |
| title_full_unstemmed | A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans |
| title_short | A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans |
| title_sort | note on the periphrastic past in afrikaans |
| topic | minimalism periphrasis periphrastic past auxiliary |
| url | https://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/276 |
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