Analysing the syntax and semantics of the Afrikaans Past Tense
Channel: RU Syntax Lectures
Date: 2022-04-20

Why do Afrikaans adjectival participles have a suffix?
Why does "het" differ from its infinitival form?
Why doe Afrikaans allow participle marking on light verbs?
Afrikaans has only a single past tense form.  I explore its meaning and syntactic structure and use this to explain a number of linguistic puzzles.
We will draw on Reichenbach (1947), Giorgi & Pianesi (1997) and others.