From Coordination to Verbal Serialization – The Pójść (Serial Verb) Construction in Polish
From Coordination to Verbal Serialization – The Pójść (Serial Verb) Construction in Polish
Author(s): Alexander AndrasonSubject(s): Syntax, Semantics, Cognitive linguistics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Serial verb construction; Polish; semantic maps; grammaticalization; cognitive linguistics;
Summary/Abstract: The present paper studies the PÓJŚĆ gram in Polish – a construction composed of the verb pójść ‘walk’ and another inflected verb. The author demonstrates that the PÓJŚĆ can be represented as a set of stages on the path linking bi-clausality/bi-verbiness and monoclausal/mono-verbiness. Specifically, it spans the section ranging from a non-canonical, less cohesive instantiation of a serial verb construction (SVC) (in which it overlaps with asyndetic coordination) to a canonical instantiation of SVC (in which it complies with the SVC prototype to a large extent). Accordingly, the study corroborates the view that SVCs may derive from asyndetic coordination and, by accumulating properties associated with different parts of the clausality/verbiness continuum, gradually develop towards SVC. This gradualness is not only diachronic, but may also be observed synchronically.
Journal: Research in Language (RiL)
- Issue Year: 16/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 19-46
- Page Count: 28
- Language: English