Passive Participle

This master thesis aims to describe the behaviour of past participle agreement (PPA) in Majorcan Catalan, especially with a non-moved object (in its canonical post-verbal position), in comparison with other Romance dialects and emphasising a fact little or non observed until now, that is to say, PPA with a non-moved object is not always felicitous: it is accepted in telic dynamical events, but is forbidden in stative situations —except for certain telic dynamical constructions built with some stative verbs— and it is also forbidden in some atelic transitive dynamical constructions; but, crucially, not in all of them. In order to draw a theoretical explanation for this behaviour, it is argued that it is imperative that a specific functional head (Asp) be present in the clausal structure.

The main concern of this article is to provide an analysis of the syntactic classes of Arabic passive participle forms and discuss their translations based on a comparative study of two English Quranic translations by Ali (1934) and Pickthall (1930). The study attempts to answer two questions: (a) Should we translate the Arabic passive participle into an English nominal, verbal, adjectival or adverbial? and (b) What are the factors that determine the choice of one translation or the other? So, it compares the two translations to analyze the different English translations of the Arabic passive participle. A corpus of 350 sentences has been randomly selected from the source text, together with their 700 translations in the target texts. The two translations of all the sentences are compared and analyzed in terms of syntactic and semantic features. The various English translations of the Arabic passive participle forms are presented with a count of the examples representing them in the...

In the I.E. languages are atested various kinds of participles having stem-building suffixes in relation of the grammatical cathegory of tense and diatheses, but not all of them are attested in each I.E.language. In the course of the evolution, in Albanian verbal system, only the past passive participle, is inherited form the I.E. non-finite forms. The I.E. suffix -meno has reflected -m, the reflexes of -no, has yielded -n(e)/re, and I.E. suffix -to has reflected -te. In Albanian, the participal suffixes are added to the verbal stem, which are the same as that of the past. After the formal distinction of the participial adjectives from the mere participles through the pre-articulation and after the formation of the analytic perfect, the Albanian past participle has undergone to a restriction of its functions as a term of the sentence, and an extension of its use as an integral part of the analytic perfect forms on the other. As a result of this change, the participle suffixes have b...

The present paper deals with a group of athematic middle participles with the suffix -ana-which exhibit quite unusual syntactic properties in early Vedic, in the language of the ~gveda (RV), While the fmite forms with which these participles are said to belong are employed only transitively, -ana-participles made from the same stem are attested in both transitive and intransitive (passive) constructions, This fact was noted. already by DeIbriick in his seminal Altindische Syntax, I Such asymmetry in the syntactic properties of finite and participial forms requires an explanation, To begin with, I shall focus on two typical examples, the participles hinva.na-and yujana-,