Pluractional conceptual space: three case studies and their typological relevance
DOI:10.30842/alp2306573714221
Mattiola S. Semanticheskaya zona
glagolnoy mnozhestvennosti: analiz trekh yavleniy i ikh
tipologicheskaya znachimost. Acta Linguistica
Petropolitana. 517.
This paper investigates how pluractional
constructions work in three specific languages adopting the
analysis proposed in Mattiola [2017a]. Cross-linguistically, these
constructions are multifunctional and can be explained through
semantic maps. These case studies also raise certain issues on the
grammatical status of pluractionality: cross-linguistically
grammatical categories are not universal, but they seem to be best
conceived as comparative concepts [Haspelmath 2010].
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