ISSN: 2306-5737E-ISSN: 2658-4069
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana
Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies
ISSN: 2306-5737E-ISSN: 2658-4069
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana
Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies 

Event structure of complex predicates with the light verb lart ‘seat, put’ in Poshkart Chuvash

DOI:10.30842/alp23065737171406440
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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
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