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

[Paolo Ramat]

Bonjour,
Daniel Ross has written: :"[*TAKE can also be used transitively in
pseudocoordination more like SVCs, as in English "He took the money and
ran" or "He took the knife and cut the bread" but that's not as widely
studied or as clearly grammaticalized as the TAKE AND type. Interestingly,
this intransitive-like TAKE is also not widely used similarly in SVCs
cross-linguistically.] This is correct, but I think that the crucial
meaning of *take* is precisely the transitive one, such as in  "*He took
the money and ran", "He took the knife and cut the bread  o*r in Hopper's
example  *He took a pair of scissors and cut it. The money, the knife* and *the
scissors  --*no matter whether the knife and the scissors have, from the
semantic point of view, an instrumental  meaning-- are the morphological
objects of the Vb. *take, *while  we cannot consider *ran *in a sentence
like *he took and ran *as the object of* he took.*

Best
. Paolo Ramat

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Il giorno ven 24 mag 2024 alle ore 08:19 Adam James Ross Tallman <
ajrtallman at utexas.edu> ha scritto:

> Dear Paolo,
>
> Thank you very much for the source!
>
> best,
>
> Adam
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 12:37 PM Paolo Ramat <paoram at unipv.it> wrote:
>
>> Hi  Adam,
>> An interesting article by E. Coseriu , '*Tomo y me voy*. Ein Problem
>> vergleichender europäischer Syntax', *Vox Romanica *25/1, 1966: 13-55
>> (p. 50: "Eine parataktische Aspekt Periphrase")
>> Best,
>> Paolo
>> .
>> Prof. Dr. Paolo Ramat
>> Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Socio corrispondente
>> 'Academia Europaea'
>> 'Societas Linguistica Europaea', Honorary Member
>> Università di Pavia (retired)
>> Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS Pavia) (retired)
>>
>> piazzetta Arduino 11 - I 27100 Pavia
>> ##39 0382 27027
>> 347 044 98 44
>>
>>
>> Il giorno mer 22 mag 2024 alle ore 11:31 Adam James Ross Tallman via
>> Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> ha scritto:
>>
>>>
>>> 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
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>>> Friedrich Schiller Universität
>>> Department of English Studies
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>
> --
> Adam J.R. Tallman
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> Friedrich Schiller Universität
> Department of English Studies
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