The morphology of trapping and climbing in French causatives
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2024.1Abstract
In this paper, we shall discuss how the treatment of
morphological periphrasis (Vincent & Börjars, 1996; Popova & Spencer,
2013; Bonami, 2015) can be integrated into the framework of
Information-based Morphology (IbM; Crysmann & Bonami, 2015), an
inferential-realisational theory of inflection couched in terms of
typed feature structures.
French verb morphology provides a rich set of synthetic and analytic
forms. Among the latter we find the so-called composed tenses
(e.g. passé composé) and the near tenses, such as the passé récent
(=‘recent past’) and the futur proche (=‘near future’). Recently, we
have argued that clitic climbing can equally be understood as
morphological periphrasis (Aguila-Multner & Crysmann, 2020a,b;
Aguila-Multner, 2023). Thus, the morphosyntax of French verbs provides
an ideal testing ground to study the interaction of different
periphrastic dependencies, which we shall use to illustrate our
treatment of periphrasis in IbM.
