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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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