Books by Krzysztof Migdalski
This book examines second position effects in syntax, the V2 order in Germanic and second positio... more This book examines second position effects in syntax, the V2 order in Germanic and second position cliticization in Slavic. These are unique syntactic mechanisms, which seem to be constrained only by the requirement that an element, a finite verb or a clitic, occurs after a category-neutral, clause-initial constituent, with few restrictions as to what this constituent might be. The main aim of this work is to establish a parametric property that triggers V2 and second position clitic placement. Both effects were hypothesized to be related phenomena already in their first analysis due to Wackernagel (1892), but so far they have not been examined in a comparative way in detail, especially in a diachronic perspective. This work shows that neither of them is a uniform syntactic operation, and it is necessary distinguish between Force-related and generalized second position placement. What unifies them is Tense dependency: V2 structures are restricted to tensed environments, whereas the development of second position cliticization in Slavic is shown to have been contemporaneous with the decline of morphological tense marking on the verb, analyzed as the loss of TP.
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Papers by Krzysztof Migdalski
Journal of Slavic linguistics, 2022
<i>Studies in formal Slavic linguistics</i> (review)
Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 2010
ABSTRACT
Journal of Slavic linguistics, 2021
Zmiany diachroniczne w składni klityk zaimków osobowych w wybranych językach południowosłowiańskich
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How Categorical are Categories?, 2015
How Categorical are Categories?
This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditi... more This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying the "grey zone" between standard categories (e.g., nominalizations). This book will be of interest for researchers and students of linguistics and cognitive sciences.
Degrammaticalization of pronominal clitics in Slavic
Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change, 2021
This paper examines the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as weak pronouns in the Slavic languages... more This paper examines the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as weak pronouns in the Slavic languages. It demonstrates that the change occurred historically in Old Polish and Old Russian, and that currently it is also taking place in Macedonian. We interpret the reanalysis as a case of degrammaticalization. We assume that in syntactic terms degrammaticalization involves the reinterpretation of heads as phrasal elements. Furthermore, the paper identifies the trigger of the process, which is the weakening of the tense system in the respective languages, evidenced through the loss of the aorist and imperfect tense forms. On the theoretical side, the paper shows that grammaticalization is clearly reversible and that it can be disturbed by general syntactic principles.
This paper accounts for the distribution of two second position effects, the V2 (verb second) ord... more This paper accounts for the distribution of two second position effects, the V2 (verb second) order observed in continental Germanic languages and second position cliticization, attested in some Slavic languages. It shows that it is necessary to distinguish two types of second position effects: one of them affects finite verbs and pronominal and auxiliary clitics, whereas the other one is restricted to the contexts of marked illocution and is observed among a small class of so-called operator clitics. Furthermore, this paper addresses Bošković’s (2016) generalization concerning the distribution of clitics, which states that second position pronominal and auxiliary clitics are found only in languages without articles. This paper shows that although this generalization is empirically correct, it does not account for the distribution of auxiliary clitics and is not supported by diachronic considerations. It proposes an alternative generalization, which restricts verb-adjacent cliticiza...
The Syntax of the l-participle in Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian
The riddle of ‘future tense’ in Polish
Future Times, Future Tenses, 2014
In Polish two types of constructions express future time reference: a ‘simple future’ (SF) and a ... more In Polish two types of constructions express future time reference: a ‘simple future’ (SF) and a ‘periphrastic future’ (PF). These two seemingly simple constructions raise four complex questions concerning their syntax, semantics, and diachrony: What is the syntactic structure of future constructions in Polish? Why does Polish have two variants of the periphrastic future (one with an l-participle as a complement of the future auxiliary będzie and another with an infinitive as a complement of będzie)? (More specifically, can the fact that at some point in the history of Polish the two variants developed be attributed to the semantics of these forms, or should it be treated as a diachronic accident?) How is future reference obtained in the Polish future constructions? Assuming that there is the same mechanism for securing future time reference both in SF and PF, what then is the difference between SF and PF? Keywords: Polish simple future, periphrastic future, biclausal constructions, monoclausal constructions, perfective aspect, temporal gap
This article investigates the syntax of doubly filled COMP patterns in Czech and Slovenian interr... more This article investigates the syntax of doubly filled COMP patterns in Czech and Slovenian interrogatives from a cross-linguistic perspective, concentrating on the differences between Germanic and Slavic doubly Filled COMP. In Germanic, dialects that allow the doubly filled COMP pattern do so to lexicalize a C head specified as [fin] with overt material, which is regularly carried out by verb movement in main clauses (e.g. V2 in German, T-to-C in English interrogatives) and by the interrogative complementizer in embedded polar questions. The insertion of the complementizer has no interpretive effect on the clause and is restricted to embedded clauses. By contrast, in Czech and Slovenian a complementizer can be inserted even in main clauses, and while its presence is optional, its insertion triggers an interpretive difference, resulting in an echo reading. I argue that while in Germanic, the C head is specified as [wh] and is checked off by the wh-element, in Slavic the C is not specified as [wh] and the type of the clause hence matches the properties of the inserted declarative head. In turn, the wh-element moves because it is focused: echo questions are closer to focus constructions than to ordinary questions.
Gradients of pronominal and verbal deficiency
This paper investigates the issue of head directionality in Old Slavic. This issue has<br> ... more This paper investigates the issue of head directionality in Old Slavic. This issue has<br> played an important role in diachronic studies on Germanic, in which a switch<br> in head directionality was assumed to have triggered word order changes in the<br> history of these languages. Within Slavic, Old Bulgarian and Old Church Slavonic<br> have been claimed to partly feature head-final grammars by Pancheva (2005; 2008)<br> and Dimitrova-Vulchanova & Vulchanov (2008), in contrast to contemporary Slavic<br> languages, which are head-initial. This paper shows that there is little evidence for<br> head-finality in Old Slavic.
This paper investigates the issue of head directionality in Old Slavic. This issue has played an ... more This paper investigates the issue of head directionality in Old Slavic. This issue has played an important role in diachronic studies on Germanic, in which a switch in head directionality was assumed to have triggered word order changes in the history of these languages. Within Slavic, Old Bulgarian and Old Church Slavonic have been claimed to partly feature head-final grammars by Pancheva (2005; 2008) andDimitrova-Vulchanova&Vulchanov (2008), in contrast to contemporary Slavic languages, which are head-initial. This paper shows that there is little evidence for head-finality in Old Slavic.
Direction of Cliticization in Macedonian
On a diachronic relation between the richness of Tense, Force, and second-position effects
This chapter identifies T(ense) as the formal property that conditions the availability of V2 and... more This chapter identifies T(ense) as the formal property that conditions the availability of V2 and second-position phenomena (2P). Specifically, it shows on the basis of Modern Slavic data that second- position pronominal clitics are attested only in languages that do not have morphological tense. Moreover, it investigates the diachrony of pronominal cliticization in South Slavic, observing that the shift of verb-adjacent pronominal clitics to second-position was contemporaneous with the loss of simple past tenses, aorist and imperfect. This development did not affect ‘operator clitics’, which express C-related Illocutionary Force. They uniformly target second-position across Slavic, forming a distinct class of second-position clitics with special prosodic and syntactic requirements. The observed Tense dependency of pronominal clitics in Slavic provides support for the validity of the link between second-position phenomena and Tense, which has been postulated since den Besten’s (1977...
Participle fronting in Bulgarian
Linguistics in The Netherlands, 2003
The Participle-Auxiliary Patterns in Bulgarian : an XP-movement Approach
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Papers by Krzysztof Migdalski
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