Towards a syntactic analysis of Russian -sja / Прелиминарный синтаксический анализ русского маркера -ся

This paper presents a unifying analysis of the uses of the Russian marker -sja in passives, anticausatives and antipassives. The analysis is couched in terms of Distributed Morphology and does not assume any argument structure on roots, i.e. all arguments are licensed by functional heads. The main proposal that is put forward is that -sja is a head that fulfils two tasks in a derivation: in syntax, it saturates a selectional feature on an argument-introducing head, in semantics, it existentially quantifies over an unsaturated argument variable. AuHOTaijHfl B A3HHOH c tut be npefljiaraeTca oooomeHHbin aiiajuu ynoTpeOJiemifl pyccKOro MapKepa -en b naccHBHbix, aHTHKayjaTHBHbix h aHTHnaccHBHbix KOHCTpyiouuix. Ahiuihj BbipaooTaH Ha oc h o Be MOAejiH AHCTpHOyHpoBaHHOH MOp(]x)jiorHH h HCXOAHT H3 rHnoTejbi, MTO KopHH rjiarojia He hociit HHc{)opMauHH o CTpyKType apryMeHTOB, T.e. Bce rjiarojibHwe apryMeHTbi onpcaejiaiOTCfl cJ)yHKUHOHajibHbiMH BepuiHHaMH. BwflBHraeTca rnnoTe3a o tom, MTO -CR 5IBJI5ieTC51 (JtyHKUHOHajibHOH BepiIIHHOH, BbinOJIH5HOIljeH ABe 3a^aMH B flepHBaUHH! b CHHTaKCHce oHa caTypHpyeT cejieKUHOHHbiH npHjHaK flpyron BepuiHHOH, jiHueH3Hpyiomen apryMeHT, b ceMaHTHKe OHa BbinojiHaeT (J)yHKUHio KBaHTopa cymecTBOBaHHii, T.e. OHa KBaHTHcJ)HUHpyeT He3anojiHeHHyio nepeMeHHyio.