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Revision as of 05:27, 22 February 2009

The participle is a non-finite form of a verb. One distinguishes the present participle writing in (i), the participle of the perfect tense written in (ii), and the passive participle written in (iii):

(i)    John is writing a book
(ii)   John has written a book
(iii)  This book was been written by John

In Germanic and Romance languages participles sometimes show agreement inflection, as shown in (iv) by the passive participle écrites:

(iv)   Cettes lettres ont été écrites par Marie
       Those letters[Pl,F] have been written[Pl,F] by Marie

Links

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

  • Spencer, A. 1991. Morphological Theory, Blackwell, Oxford.

Other languages

German Partizip

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