Event structure of complex predicates with
the light verb lart ‘seat, put’ in Poshkart Chuvash
DOI:10.30842/alp23065737171406440
Golosov F. V. Event structure of complex
predicates with the light verb lart ‘seat, put’ in Poshkart
Chuvash. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 2021. 17(1):
406–440.
This article addresses the semantic properties and selective
restrictions of the grammaticalized verb lart ‘seat, put’
in the Poshkart dialect of Chuvash. I show that the light verb can
combine with lexical verbs with external arguments to form telic
complex predicates signaling significant scalar change of state of
one of the arguments. A description of the different behavior the
light verb lart demonstrates with verbs that already have
a scale of change and those that lack it is proposed. Further, I
offer a formal analysis of the event structure of complex predicates
with lart undertaken in the first phase syntax framework.
The light verb lart has an impoverished event structure of
its own that consists of three eventual heads (init, proc,
and res) with Initiator, Undergoer, and Resultee as their
specifiers. As the paper shows, this analysis predicts both the
selective restrictions of the light verb and the resulting
semantics of the complex predicates. In particular, the suggested
analysis predicts the distribution of the two basic (the gradative
and the accumulative) meanings of the light verb lart. I
claim that these meanings can be reduced to a single meaning of a
scalar change of the state affecting the Undergoer of the event. The
gradative meaning arises in contexts where the Undergoer is
non-coreferential to the Initiator and the accumulative meaning, in
contexts where the Initiator is coreferential to the Undergoer. The
data were collected by elicitation during my field trip to the
Chuvash village of Poshkart (Maloye Karachkino).
Keywords
complex predicates, serialization,
grammaticalization, Chuvash, actionality, event structure,
accumulative, gradative
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Keywords
complex predicates, serialization,
grammaticalization, Chuvash, actionality, event structure,
accumulative, gradative
