Polysemy and grammaticalization of verbs of
throwing: evidence from Hill Mari
DOI:10.30842/alp2306573716115
Kashkin Ye. V., Mordashova D. D.
Polisemiya i grammatikalizatsiya glagolov brosaniya: dannyye
gornomariyskogo yazyka. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana.
2020. XVI(1): 494–522.
The paper deals with verbs of throwing in Hill Mari
(Finno-Ugric). The data were collected in fieldwork mainly by
elicitation, as well as by analyzing the corpus of transcribed oral
narratives. First of all, two dominant lexemes of this semantic
field are taken into account. These lexemes display clear
differences in their Aktionsart properties. The differences between
the lexemes with regard to a number of parameters previously
proposed in typology are investigated, their relevance is
evaluated. New parameters for their opposition are put forward. In
addition, the article discusses the peripheral verbs of adjacent
semantic fields (destruction and distribution in space). The
correlations between more general distributive semantics of the
peripheral lexemes and their semantic content in the contexts of
throwing are considered. Special attention is paid to the
grammaticalization of dominant verbs of throwing in complex verb
constructions and to the analysis of their distributional
constraints. Both the similarities between the constructions
(participant with a semantic role of Patient, semantics of
destruction) and the differences between them (constraints on
plurality) are studied. Data on complex verb constructions are also
discussed in the light of the cross-linguistic variation in the
semantic shifts typical of the domain under consideration.
Keywords
verbs of throwing, semantics, lexical
typology, grammaticalization, complex verb constructions
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Keywords
verbs of throwing, semantics, lexical
typology, grammaticalization, complex verb constructions
