[Lingtyp] lexical aspect / actionality / Aktionsart in verb serialization / verb compounds / lexical affixes etc.

[Adam James Ross Tallman]

Hello all,

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:

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?

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?


best,

Adam



-- 
Adam J.R. Tallman
Post-doctoral Researcher
Friedrich Schiller Universität
Department of English Studies
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