Jabłońska (2004): When the Prefixes Meet the Suffixes

[Jab04] specialises the lexical / superlexical distinction of [Sve04] to Polish. Her central claim: the interpretation of superlexical po- (delimitative vs distributive vs inceptive) is verbalizer-sensitive — it depends on the embedded verbalizer, with a common semantic denominator across the readings. Her fn. 2 notes that na- patterns with po- in its ability to stack (to occur in Asp3).

Main definitions

• analyses — her classified examples: delimitative po- on a stative (fn. 21), inceptive po- on a psych stative ((54a)), inceptive za- on a low -ej- verbalizer stem ((53)).

Main results

• po_same_form_different_readings — the same fragment morph po- carries different superlexical readings across analyses: the verbalizer-sensitivity datum.
• superlexical_selects_imperfective — all her superlexical derivations sit on imperfective stems, consistent with [Sve04]'s diagnostic (56c).

def Jablonska2004.aFn21 : Svenonius2004.Analysis

fn. 21: po-siedzieć 'sit for a while' — delimitative po- on the stative siedzieć (contra Młynarczyk's claim that delimitative po- avoids statives).

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def Jablonska2004.a54a : Svenonius2004.Analysis

(54a) po-kochać 'start loving' — po- fixing the left boundary of a state: an inceptive reading of the same prefix.

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def Jablonska2004.a53 : Svenonius2004.Analysis

(53) za-jaśnieć 'start being bright' — inceptive za- on a low -ej- verbalizer stem; the reading is inchoation of a state, not of a becoming.

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def Jablonska2004.analyses : List Svenonius2004.Analysis

All analyses of this study.

Equations

• Jablonska2004.analyses = [Jablonska2004.aFn21, Jablonska2004.a54a, Jablonska2004.a53]

Results

theorem Jablonska2004.po_same_form_different_readings : List.map (fun (x : Morphology.Morph × Svenonius2004.PrefixClass) => x.1) aFn21.prefixes = List.map (fun (x : Morphology.Morph × Svenonius2004.PrefixClass) => x.1) a54a.prefixes ∧ List.map (fun (x : Morphology.Morph × Svenonius2004.PrefixClass) => x.2) aFn21.prefixes ≠ List.map (fun (x : Morphology.Morph × Svenonius2004.PrefixClass) => x.2) a54a.prefixes

The verbalizer-sensitivity datum: aFn21 and a54a carry the same fragment morph po- with different superlexical readings (delimitative on the plain stative, inceptive on the psych stative).

theorem Jablonska2004.superlexical_selects_imperfective (a : Svenonius2004.Analysis) (ha : a ∈ analyses) : a.stem.perfectivity = Semantics.Aspect.Perfectivity.imperfective

All her superlexical derivations sit on imperfective stems, consistent with [Sve04]'s diagnostic (56c).

theorem Jablonska2004.analyses_match_segmentation (a : Svenonius2004.Analysis) (ha : a ∈ [aFn21, a54a]) : a.MatchesSegmentation

The citation-form analyses match her hyphen segmentation ((53) za-jaś-ni-e-ć is segmented down to verbalizer suffixes and is excluded).