From Coordination to Verbal Serialization – The PÓJŚĆ (Serial Verb) Construction in Polish

• Authors: Andrason, Alexander

Abstracts

EN

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 mono-clausal/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.

Keywords

EN

Serial verb construction; Polish; semantic maps; grammaticalization; cognitive linguistics

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2018-06-07

Contributors

author

Andrason, Alexander

other

University of Stellenbosch

other

[e-mail]

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/26528

DOI

10.2478/rela-2018-0001