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Verbalizing suffixes and the structure of the Polish verb

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Yearbook of Morphology 1997

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Abstract

The Polish Verb is a complex morphological entity, encoding distinctions in Perfective and Imperfective aspect, Past, Present, and Future tense, Person/Number/Gender agreement and finite versus nonfinite categories in addition to the lexical meaning carried by the Root or Stem on which it is based. The standard analysis of the forms and order of most of the affixes which occur in Polish Verbal morphology is based on the structure of the Slavic Verb Word first postulated for Russian by Jakobson (1948) and for Polish by Schenker (1954). The Jakobsonian analysis of the Polish Verb Word is given in (1):

$$\begin{gathered} Jakobsonian Verb Word \hfill \\ \Pr efix + \surd ROOT + VS + TM + P/N \hfill \\ \surd ROOT = Root or derived Verb Stem TM = Tense marker, Infinitive, Participle \hfill \\ VS = Verbalizing Suffix P/N = Agreement (person, number, gender) \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
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    Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins

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Czaykowska-Higgins, E. (1998). Verbalizing suffixes and the structure of the Polish verb. In: Booij, G., Van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1997. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4998-3_2

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