Combination of Past Participles Functioning as Adverbials with Main Verbs in Lithuanian: Aspect and Transitivity
Combination of Past Participles Functioning as Adverbials with Main Verbs in Lithuanian: Aspect and Transitivity

Summary/Abstract: This paper is aimed at providing some observations about certain constraints which determine how past participles, functioning as adverbials (in semi-predicative usage), combine with main verbs in Lithuanian. In previous studies (Sakurai 2000; 2003) I presented some remarks on the semantic constraints, in particular those looked upon from the angle of aspect, under which past participles, functioning as adverbials, combine with main verbs. This issue has not yet been addressed to date either in traditional Lithuanian grammar (LKG, DLKG) or in other studies about Lithuanian. Here, by adding to this analysis the viewpoint on transitivity, I am going to emphasize the close linkage between aspect and transitivity in this problem: in < state> type predicate sentences, adjectival past participles and main verbs construct one predicate as a single entity where the combinatory possibilities are strictly constrained by the principle of semantic consistency in stativity and intransitivity.

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