Czasownik nie do końca (nie)dokonany: "dać się" w użyciu modalnym
A not completely (im)perfective verb: "dać się" in modal use

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the semantics and aspectual characteristics of modal constructions formed with "dać" ‘give, let’ in combination with the reflexive particle "się". In Polish today, this construction appear in two varieties: in the first, diachronically older variant, the notional object is coded as a subject, while the second, younger variant is impersonal in the sense that it does not contain a subject. This second variant became current only in the 20th century and is more grammaticalized than its older sibling in several respects. Notably, it is not unanimously perfective, but shares many, but not all, characteristicsof an imperfective verb, thereby exhibiting traits of a transitional aspectual status.

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