%0 Journal Article
%T Are Dispositional Adjectives a Case of Transposition? – Semantic Effects of -liw(y) Attachment to Verbal Bases in Polish
%A Bloch-Trojnar, Maria
%J Studies in Polish Linguistics
%V Volume 13 (2018)
%R 10.4467/23005920SPL.18.004.8743
%N Vol. 13, Issue 2
%P 69-92
%K dispositional adjectives, deverbal adjectives, middle verbs, Subject adjectivizations, LMBM
%@ 1732-8160
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/are-dispositional-adjectives-a-case-of-transposition-semantic-effects-of-liw-y-attachment-to-verbal-bases-in-polish
%X The paper presents the constraints on the formation of dispositional adjectives in Polish marked with the suffix -liw(y) and situates the process in a larger-scale picture of the entire class of deverbal adjectivizations. Derivatives with dispositional semanticsare argued to be a subclass of Subject adjectivizations/potential adjectives since both are one-participant eventualities, the sole participant being mapped onto the subject position of the main verb. The difference between dispositional and potential semantics is not categorical but a matter of degree. The domain of this process includes intransitive verbs of communication and emission, reflexively marked intransitive verbs referring to emotional states (deponents), (reflexively marked) decausatives, verbs denoting psychological/emotional/mental experiences which syntactically may be transitive but can be viewed as one-participant internal eventualities, non-prototypical transitive verbs which take genitive- and dative-marked objects and verbal roots which alternate between transitive and middle semantics. The dispositional semantics of the adjective depends on the personal/animate or inanimate nature of the participant involved in the eventuality. Thus, it rests with the base (or partly with the nominal argument) and is not supplied by the suffix.