DOI:10.30842/alp2306573716215
Dyachkov V. V., Strygina M. O.
Semanticheskiye i sintaksicheskiye svoystva pokazateley glagolnoy
mnozhestvennosti v gornomariyskom yazyke. Acta Linguistica
Petropolitana. 2020. XVI(2): 420–452.
The article deals with the semantic properties of several
pluractionality markers in the Hill Mari language. The aim of the
study is to identify their semantic differences against the
typologically relevant pluractionality pa-rameters (see [Cusic
1981], [Khrakovskiy 1989], [Shluinskiy 2006], [Wood 2007] inter
alia). We will show that the Hill Mari pluractionality markers can
be subdivided into those that express iterative meanings and those
that can be regarded as measure operators modifying both single and
plural events.
The latter set of markers (namely, the attenuative -al- and the
discontinuative -kal-), considered in greater detail, can modify
several semantic components of a verb. We analyze these based on
the ideas of predicate decomposition in terms of the Ramchand’s
event structure theory. We will show that these markers can modify
independently the initial, the progressing, and the resulting
subevents of the event denoted by a given verb. With the event
structure of a predicate established, one can predict a given
predicate’s reading emerging in combination with a given
pluractionality marker. Thus, achievements modified by the
attenuative can only produce a resulting-state reading, while in
combination with the degree marker achievements denote situations
with a reduced degree of the action’s performance, etc. We will
also show that, in some cases, the attenuative and the
discontinuative can modify an iterative (often implicit) operator
putting it into a special position in the syntactic tree (iterative
phrase head).
Another hypothesis of this paper is that all pluractionality
markers include quantized events in their semantic representation,
that is, pluractionality markers can be viewed as operators over
quantized events, which makes it possible to draw some parallels
between nominal plurality and pluractionality.
Keywords
verbal pluractionality, aspect, aktionsart
theory, event structure, Finno-Ugric languages, Hill Mari
language
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