A pseudo-coordinated serial verb construction “wziąć i V2” in Polish

• Autorzy: Alexander Andrason
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This article argues that a double-verb construction built around the verb wziąć and the element i – the so-called J(uncture)-WZIĄĆ gram – is a less canonical Serial Verb Construction (SVC). The gram complies with all the traits postulated as inherent to the prototype of SVCs with one noticeable exception – it exhibits an element that is homophonous with the conjunctive coordinator i ‘and’. However, i in the J-WZIĄĆ gram is not a true coordinator, nor is the J-WZIĄĆ gram a genuine coordinated structure. Rather, i functions as a dummy juncture, and the J-WZIĄĆ gram constitutes an example of pseudo-coordination – a stage on the grammaticalization path from coordination to verbal serialization.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Polish; serial verb constructions; coordination; pseudo-coordination; cognitive linguistics; grammaticalization

• Wydawca: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: 80
• Numer: 3
• Strony: 163-191
• Rodzaj publikacji: ARTICLE

Twórcy

autor

Alexander  Andrason

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic