Is the Polish Verb iść an Auxiliary to be?
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Dorota Sikora
Abstract
The aim of the present paper is to investigate the degree of grammaticalization displayed by the Polish verb iść ‘to go’ in its infinitive constructions. A significant number of such VP show features usually associated with ongoing auxiliarization (ambiguity in context, desemanticization, released selection constraints and loss of grammatical properties of the verb). However, semantic bleaching is far from being complete as long as antonyms of iść are banned from infinitive complement position. Considering available corpus data, we assume that the grammaticalization of iść in its infinitive constructions has presently attained the stage of bridging contexts (Heine 2002). Keywords: grammaticalization; auxiliarization; Polish motion verbs; semantic change
Abstract
The aim of the present paper is to investigate the degree of grammaticalization displayed by the Polish verb iść ‘to go’ in its infinitive constructions. A significant number of such VP show features usually associated with ongoing auxiliarization (ambiguity in context, desemanticization, released selection constraints and loss of grammatical properties of the verb). However, semantic bleaching is far from being complete as long as antonyms of iść are banned from infinitive complement position. Considering available corpus data, we assume that the grammaticalization of iść in its infinitive constructions has presently attained the stage of bridging contexts (Heine 2002). Keywords: grammaticalization; auxiliarization; Polish motion verbs; semantic change
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Abbreviations xi
- Impersonals and Beyond in Slavic 1
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Section I: Morphosyntax
- Binding and Morphology Revisited 25
- Possessor Raising and Slavic clitics 43
- The Slavonic Languages and the Development of the Antipassive Marker 61
- Clitic SE in Romance and Slavonic revisited 75
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Section II: Syntactical relations
- The Lazy Speaker and the Fascination of Emptiness 91
- Is the Polish Verb iść an Auxiliary to be? 123
- Towards Evidentiality Markers in Albanian and Macedonian Bilingual Political Discourse 139
- A strange variant of Russian ctoby -construction 149
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Section III: Impersonal constructions
- Impersonal Constructions in Serbian 169
- Interpretation and voice in Polish SIĘ and –NO/–TO constructions 185
- Dative-infinitive constructions in Russian 199
- On the Nature of Dative Arguments in Russian Constructions with «Predicatives» 225
- Russian Adversity Impersonals and Split Ergativity 247
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Section IV: Lexical semantics
- Morphological and lexical aspect in Russian deverbal nominalizations 267
- Lexical synonymy within the semantic field POWER 281
- Collocations with nominal quantifiers 297
- Polysemy Patterns in Russian Adjectives and Adverbs 313
- Language index 323
- Name index 325
- Subject index 329
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Abbreviations xi
- Impersonals and Beyond in Slavic 1
-
Section I: Morphosyntax
- Binding and Morphology Revisited 25
- Possessor Raising and Slavic clitics 43
- The Slavonic Languages and the Development of the Antipassive Marker 61
- Clitic SE in Romance and Slavonic revisited 75
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Section II: Syntactical relations
- The Lazy Speaker and the Fascination of Emptiness 91
- Is the Polish Verb iść an Auxiliary to be? 123
- Towards Evidentiality Markers in Albanian and Macedonian Bilingual Political Discourse 139
- A strange variant of Russian ctoby -construction 149
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Section III: Impersonal constructions
- Impersonal Constructions in Serbian 169
- Interpretation and voice in Polish SIĘ and –NO/–TO constructions 185
- Dative-infinitive constructions in Russian 199
- On the Nature of Dative Arguments in Russian Constructions with «Predicatives» 225
- Russian Adversity Impersonals and Split Ergativity 247
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Section IV: Lexical semantics
- Morphological and lexical aspect in Russian deverbal nominalizations 267
- Lexical synonymy within the semantic field POWER 281
- Collocations with nominal quantifiers 297
- Polysemy Patterns in Russian Adjectives and Adverbs 313
- Language index 323
- Name index 325
- Subject index 329
