query: grammaticalization go/be.in > negation

[Paul Hopper]

Quirk, Greenbaum et al., Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language,
discuss this use in 13.98 under the heading od Pseudo-coordination.

- Paul


> And, from English,  "Why did you go and do that?" (something considered
> undesirable)
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>>________________________________
>> From: Hartmut Haberland <hartmut at RUC.DK>
>>To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>>Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 12:12 AM
>>Subject: Re: query: grammaticalization go/be.in > negation
>>
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>>Very much à propos, I just got a mail from our departmental secretary
>> (the language is Danish)
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>>Min datter       er     desværre        gået   hen          og   
>> blevet      syg
>>My   daughter has  unfortunately   gone  DIRECT  and  become  ill
>>
>>You couldn't say that with rask 'well' - unless you are waiting for an
>> inheritance and the person you expected to die got well again.
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>>(This works the same way without the desværre 'unfortunately'.)
>>
>>Hartmut Haberland
>>
>>Den 01-02-2013 00:28, Nigel Vincent skrev:
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>>>Italian has a passive periphrasis constructed with the verb andare 'go'
>>> which can only be used with verbs which express a negative outcome.
>>> Thus:
>>>
>>>La casa è andata distrutta 'the house was (lit. went) destroyed'
>>>La lettera è andata perduta 'the letter got (went) lost'
>>>
>>>but not:
>>>*La casa è andata costruita 'the house went built'
>>>*La lettera è andata trovata 'the house went found'
>>>
>>>Nigel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA
>>>Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
>>>The University of Manchester
>>>
>>>Vice-President for Research & HE Policy, The British Academy
>>>
>>>Linguistics & English Language
>>>School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
>>>The University of Manchester
>>>Manchester M13 9PL
>>>UK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/staff/nigel-vincent/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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