Journal of Slavic Linguistics XX(X): X–X, 200X. The Morphosyntax of Polish and Ukrainian-no/-to*

Abstract. This paper provides a detailed description of the Polish and Ukrainian-no/-to + accusative construction, with considerable attention to how the two constructions differ and to their relevance for current morphological and syntactic theory. It is argued that Polish and Ukrainian-no/-to differ with respect to where the word-final /-no/-to / affix is generated in the narrow syntax. A wide range of seemingly unrelated syntactic proper-ties follow from this single claim. In the case of Polish-no/-to, it is shown that the word-final affix is not voice-altering, but rather generated in the head of a higher Aux projec-tion. A separationist view of Morphology is adopted in which the stem and affix are joined post-syntactically. Ukrainian-no/-to is a genuine passive. This construction is re-lated more generally to a class of accusative-Case-marked unaccusatives. Here it is shown that a Tense projection impoverished for agreement (φ-incomplete T) is a neces-sary (and surprising) condition for unaccusatives to appear with ACC-Case-marked com-plements. 1