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

[Ellison Luk]

Hi,

I believe Eva Schultze-Berndt's thesis on Jaminjung does a deep dive on
this topic for that language (in particular pages 400-412). The more
general reference on verb classification in Australian languages (McGregor
2002) would also be interesting for your question.

McGregor, William. 2002.* Verb Classification in Australian Languages*.
Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Schultze-Berndt, Eva. 2000. Simple and complex verbs in Jaminjung: A study
of event categorisation in an Australian language. Katholieke Universiteit
Nijmegen. (PhD Dissertation.)

Best,
Ellison Luk

On Wed, 22 May 2024 at 11:30, Adam James Ross Tallman via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
>
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