The paradigm‐based model of morphosyntax
Andrew J. Spencer · Transactions of the Philological Society · 2001
A particular set of Slavic auxiliary‐participle constructions (based on the ‘l‐participle’) exhibit a number of characteristic ‘deviations from agglutination’ of a type commonly found in inflectional morphology, such as cumulation, extended exponence and zero exponence. The participle itself cannot be given a unitary meaning. I present an analysis of these constructions within the paradigm‐based approach of Ackerman and Webelhuth (1998), in which the principles of inferential–realisational (Stump 2001) or ‘word‐and‐paradigm’ models (Robins 1959) are applied to multiword combinations which realise functional categories.