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[Frank Y Gladney]

The difference between participles and quasi-participial adjectives is that the latter are Verb+Suffix underlyingly in the sentence (for some, this would mean "in the lexicon"), where with the former the Suffix has a syntactic role, which is Subject for active participles and Object for passive participles.

Frank Y. Gladney

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>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:23:21 +0100
>From: John Dunn <J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK>  
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Terms  
>To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
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>On the question of participles it is, I think, useful to distinguish between participles, which are endowed with specific grammatical properties, and what I used to annoy my students with by calling quasi-participial adjectives.  The latter may look more or less like participles, but function as common or garden adjectives.  Неотделимый [Neotdelimyj] is undoubtedly a QAP, as are висячий, падший, жареный [visjachij, padshij, zharenyj] and, when used as in the following sentence, воспитанный [vospitannyj]:
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>Она очень воспитанна [Ona ochen' vospitanna].
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>John Dunn.
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