| description | Jan-Wouter Zwart. 2017. A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans. In Alexander Andrason and Theresa Biberauer, eds., Iets kleins/ ’n Klein ietsie: a festschrift to honor Johan Oosthuizen on the occasion of his retirement. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics 48, 1-8. |
| type | Reviewed journal article. |
| ID | 2017d | 166 | DOI | first version September 1, 2017; final version November 23, 2017 |
| origin | Invited contribution to a Festschrift for Johan Oosthuizen (Stellenbosch University). The paper argues that the periphrastic past in Afrikaans lends itself quite easily to the view of periphrasis proposed in 2017c. |
| keywords | periphrasis, Afrikaans, morphology-syntax relation, perfect, auxiliaries, realizational morphology, verb clusters, grammaticalization |
| summary | The periphrastic past tense of Afrikaans, involving the auxiliary het, is compared with its ancestor construction in Dutch. I argue that the situation in Afrikaans provides support for the analysis of Germanic verb clusters in Zwart (2017c), where periphrastic verb forms occupy cells in morphological paradigms, and enter the syntax only after the syntactic derivation has run its course. |
| related | full text; 166 |