<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 22 May 2024, at 5:29 PM, Adam James Ross Tallman via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:#4c1130"><br clear="all"></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Hello all,</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">I'm interested in combinations of lexical elements (serial verb constructions or verb compound constructions or whatever) and whether there is anything specific work which has described, classified or theorized about these in terms of lexical aspect. I guess the question is:<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">When V1 combines with V2, what happens to the actionality class of the combination? Is one just subordinated to the other or is there some way in which the aspects of each are coerced?</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">I've seen a lot of discussions about how pieces of such constructions might evolve into grammatical aspect markers (e.g. "finish" gradually becomes a completive marker), but I wonder why there appear to be few descriptions of the actionality classes of lexical combinations?</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">best,</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Adam<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Adam J.R. Tallman</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Post-doctoral Researcher <br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Friedrich Schiller Universität<br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Department of English Studies<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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