[Lingtyp] Lingtyp Digest, Vol 116, Issue 10

[Ryan Ka Yau Lai]

Dear Adam,

Chinese resultative constructions may be a good case where it is coerced by
the construction itself, at least as we have argued it (briefly, as it's
not the main point of our paper) in Lai & Pang (2023):

Lai, Ryan Ka Yau & Michelle Man-Long Pang. 2023. Rethinking the description
and typology of Cantonese causative–resultative constructions: a dynamic
constructionist lens. *Languages* 8(2). 151.
https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020151.

In our analysis, the V1 is a dynamic and atelic verb and V2 is a
dichotomous stative verb which is the end state of the V1, with the
resulting complex predicate thus becoming dynamic and telic. In Section
3.3, we argue that even in those cases where the verbs do not inherently
have these semantics (e.g. 'exceed'-comparative constructions and some
phase constructions), they take them on when they form part of the
construction.

Sincerely,
Ryan

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 5:05 AM <lingtyp-request at listserv.linguistlist.org>
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> Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 11:29:34 +0200
> From: Adam James Ross Tallman <ajrtallman at utexas.edu>
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> Subject: [Lingtyp] lexical aspect / actionality / Aktionsart in verb
>         serialization / verb compounds / lexical affixes etc.
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> 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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> Adam J.R. Tallman
> Post-doctoral Researcher
> Friedrich Schiller Universit?t
> Department of English Studies
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Ryan Ka Yau Lai
PhD Candidate
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Website: https://rkylai.wordpress.com/
Zoom: https://ucsb.zoom.us/my/kayaulai
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NJ-3M8QAAAAJ&hl
GitHub, X, bluesky: @kayaulai
Selected recent publications:
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau & Michelle Man-Long Pang. 2023. Rethinking the description
and typology of Cantonese causative–resultative constructions: a dynamic
constructionist lens. *Languages* 8(2). 151.
https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020151.
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau, Yujie Li & Shujie Zhang. 2023. Text segmentation
similarity revisited: a flexible distance-based approach for multiple
boundary types. *Proceedings of the Society for Computation in
Linguistics* 6(1).
300–309. https://doi.org/10.7275/FK79-FV58.
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau, Lily Zihe Yin, Alice Yimeng Zhang, Yuting Jiang, Bill
Shiyang Xin & Junwei Gao. 2023. Turn design, resonance and epistemic stance
in the Diamond Sutra: A dialogic constructionist approach. In *Proceedings
of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and
Computation*, 753–763.
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau. 2023. From annotation to analysis: Exploring
conversational dynamics with rezonateR. In *Proceedings of the 37th Pacific
Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation*, 303–313.
Lai, Ryan Ka Yau. 2024. Beyond anaphoric and emphatic: diversity and unity
in the functions of literary Chinese reflexive zì. *Folia Linguistica*.
https://doi.org/doi:10.1515/flin-2023-2042.
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