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The wziąć gram in Polish. A serial verb construction, or not?

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Abstract

This article analyzes the categorial status of the wziąć gram – a construction that is composed of two consecutive inflected verbs: the minor verb wziąć ‘lit. take’ (V1) and a major verb (V2) – within the radial network of serial verb constructions (SVC). After comparing the wziąć gram with properties associated with the prototype of a SVC and its cross-linguistic instantiations, the author concludes that the construction can be regarded as a relatively canonical member of the SVC category. The gram complies with all the primary characteristics of the prototype of a SVC, and exhibits various secondary properties and phenomena that are associated with or accompany SVCs across languages. The position of the wziąć gram is canonical even though the Polish language utilizes verbal serialization only minimally and belongs to a geographic area that is scarce for systems with productive serialization. In this manner, Polish proves that verbal serialization is a grammatical device that is not unknown to Indo-European languages of Europe.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Prof. Theresa Biberauer and Prof. M. Gębka-Wolak for their valuable comments on a previous version of this manuscript. I also would like to thank the anonymous reviewer whose comments greatly contributed to the final version of this paper.

Abbreviations

1, 2, 3

first, second, third person

clt

clitic

cond

conditional

dat

dative

disc.part

discourse particle

fm

feminine

fut

future

hort

hortative

impr

imperative

inf

infinitive

instr

instrumental

ipf

imperfective

ms

masculine

nt

neuter

opt

optative

part

particle

past

past tense

pf

perfective

pl

plural

refl

reflexive

sg

singular

subj

subjunctive

SVC

serial verb construction

TAM

tense, aspect, mood

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