The development of perception verb complements in the Serbian language
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Jasmina Grković-Major
Abstract
This paper investigates the evolution of perception verb complements in Serbian. In order to present the late Proto-Slavonic situation, we first give a survey of complementation strategies in Old Church Slavonic: accusative with participle, inherited from Proto-Indo-European, and jako-, kako- and kъde-clauses. Accusative with participle was lost in Old Serbian before the first written records. It was transformed into accusative with gerund, which was later replaced with a clause. The process of creating clausal complements was at work for centuries. After a period of competition between jer(e)- and da-clauses, the system seen in the contemporary language was established: da-clauses for knowledge acquired and kako-, gde-clauses for object of perception. We argue that the changes in complementation strategies are the result of an interplay between internal and contact-induced factors. The main internal driving force was the typological drift toward a transitive, configurational system, causing the loss of participial complements. This induced the gradual creation of clausal complements by restructuring parataxis into hypotaxis. Going through this phase of instability, the system was susceptible to foreign influences, which directed further development, as shown by the expansion of da-clauses into the indicative domain under Romance influence.
Abstract
This paper investigates the evolution of perception verb complements in Serbian. In order to present the late Proto-Slavonic situation, we first give a survey of complementation strategies in Old Church Slavonic: accusative with participle, inherited from Proto-Indo-European, and jako-, kako- and kъde-clauses. Accusative with participle was lost in Old Serbian before the first written records. It was transformed into accusative with gerund, which was later replaced with a clause. The process of creating clausal complements was at work for centuries. After a period of competition between jer(e)- and da-clauses, the system seen in the contemporary language was established: da-clauses for knowledge acquired and kako-, gde-clauses for object of perception. We argue that the changes in complementation strategies are the result of an interplay between internal and contact-induced factors. The main internal driving force was the typological drift toward a transitive, configurational system, causing the loss of participial complements. This induced the gradual creation of clausal complements by restructuring parataxis into hypotaxis. Going through this phase of instability, the system was susceptible to foreign influences, which directed further development, as shown by the expansion of da-clauses into the indicative domain under Romance influence.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part I: The noun phrase
- Some observations on the usage of adnominal genitives and datives in Middle Bulgarian Church Slavonic 13
- Quantifying syntactic influence: Word order, possession and definiteness in Old Church Slavonic and Greek 29
- The decay of cases in Molise Slavonic 63
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Part II: The verbal phrase and related topics
- Null subjects and person in Old North Russian 95
- On the permeability of grammars: Syntactic pattern replications in heritage Croatian and heritage Serbian spoken in Germany 125
- Possessive resultative constructions in Old and Middle Polish 161
- Mechanisms of word order change in 12th and 13th century Serbian 187
- Historical development and contemporary usage of discourse structuring elements based on verba dicendi in Croatian 209
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Part III: The complex sentence
- The status and origin of the accusativus cum infinitivo construction in Old Church Slavonic 261
- On triangulation in the domain of clause linkage and propositional marking 285
- The development of perception verb complements in the Serbian language 339
- A tale of two pathways: On the development of relative clause chaining in East Slavonic 361
- Relativisation strategies in Slovene: Diachrony between language use and language description 387
- Index 407
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part I: The noun phrase
- Some observations on the usage of adnominal genitives and datives in Middle Bulgarian Church Slavonic 13
- Quantifying syntactic influence: Word order, possession and definiteness in Old Church Slavonic and Greek 29
- The decay of cases in Molise Slavonic 63
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Part II: The verbal phrase and related topics
- Null subjects and person in Old North Russian 95
- On the permeability of grammars: Syntactic pattern replications in heritage Croatian and heritage Serbian spoken in Germany 125
- Possessive resultative constructions in Old and Middle Polish 161
- Mechanisms of word order change in 12th and 13th century Serbian 187
- Historical development and contemporary usage of discourse structuring elements based on verba dicendi in Croatian 209
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Part III: The complex sentence
- The status and origin of the accusativus cum infinitivo construction in Old Church Slavonic 261
- On triangulation in the domain of clause linkage and propositional marking 285
- The development of perception verb complements in the Serbian language 339
- A tale of two pathways: On the development of relative clause chaining in East Slavonic 361
- Relativisation strategies in Slovene: Diachrony between language use and language description 387
- Index 407
