2020
DOI: 10.1007/s11185-020-09221-2
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Active transitive impersonals in Slavic and beyond: a parallel corpus analysis

Abstract: Morphologically unmarked transitive (or accusative) impersonals, often also referred to as Adversity Impersonals or Elemental Constructions, have long been considered a primarily East Slavic phenomenon, with a somewhat marginal status in Polish. More recent research has claimed that these impersonal constructions also occur in other West Slavic languages and even in Slovenian. The present paper refines some of the previous assumptions about morphologically unmarked transitive impersonals in twelve Slavic and t… Show more

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“…2 These constructions are special in that they consist of an otherwise personal transitive verb in impersonal use and allow for the optional expression of a cause by an instrumental phrase. While most contemporary contributions about ECs focus on modern Russian and other modern Slavic languages 3 (e.g., Mustajoki & Kopotev 2005;Junghanns, Lenertová, Fehrmann 2017;Schlund 2020), some studies also discuss the origin and diachronic development of ECs (e.g., Georgieva 1978;Kwon 2010). However, examples are often cited without reference to their broader context, which is why their syntactic structure is often difficult to determine.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2 These constructions are special in that they consist of an otherwise personal transitive verb in impersonal use and allow for the optional expression of a cause by an instrumental phrase. While most contemporary contributions about ECs focus on modern Russian and other modern Slavic languages 3 (e.g., Mustajoki & Kopotev 2005;Junghanns, Lenertová, Fehrmann 2017;Schlund 2020), some studies also discuss the origin and diachronic development of ECs (e.g., Georgieva 1978;Kwon 2010). However, examples are often cited without reference to their broader context, which is why their syntactic structure is often difficult to determine.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%