TY - JOUR
TI - Syntactic Change and the Rise of Transitivity: The Case of the Polish and Ukrainian -no/-to Construction
AU - Lavine, James E.
TI - Syntactic Change and the Rise of Transitivity: The Case of the Polish and Ukrainian -no/-to Construction
AB - This paper analyzes the historical divergence of predicates marked with old passive neuter -no/-to in Polish and Ukrainian. It is argued that the locus of change leading to the rise of the transitivity property involved a rearrangement of morphologically-eroded voice morphology. Despite the surface similarity of the Polish and Ukrainian constructions, their divergent distribution in the modern languages indicates that grammaticalization of the old passive morpheme proceeded along different pathways, implicating the internal structure of vP, and creating new accusative case-assigning possibilities. 
VL - Volume 12 (2017)
IS - Vol. 12, Issue 3
PY - 2017
SN - 1732-8160
C1 - 2300-5920
SP - 173
EP - 198
DO - 10.4467/23005920SPL.17.009.7201
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/syntactic-change-and-the-rise-of-transitivity-the-case-of-the-polish-and-ukrainian-no-to-construction
KW - syntactic change
KW - voice
KW - passive
KW - -no/-to construction
KW - v-heads
KW - accusative
KW - natural force causers
KW - Polish
KW - Ukrainian