AUTOR:     Jesse Tseng i Anna Kup¶ć
AFILIACJA: CNRS/Loria i CNRS/Loria/IPI PAN
TYTUŁ:     An affixal analysis of Polish personal markings in HPSG

We will present an HPSG analysis of the past tense in Polish.  The
most problematic aspect of this construction is the presence of the
1st and 2nd person markings (e)m, (e)"s, "smy, and "scie, which can
appear in a variety of positions in the clause.  Previous proposals
have treated these elements as auxiliary verbs, but this is
incompatible with their affixal status.  We choose to treat the
personal markings as agreement suffixes, selected by the l-form verb.
This approach requires the formulation of special mechanisms for
introducing, propagating, and discharging the agreement information,
incorporating various constraints on phonology, prosody, and word
order.  The formal analysis developed for the past tense can be
extended straightforwardly to the conditional and to the future, the
two other constructions in Polish involving l-form verbs.