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Something's gotta 'go', something's gotta 'give': completion, mirativity and transitivity in odia light verb constructions

    1. [1] English and Foreign Languages University

      English and Foreign Languages University

      India

    2. [2] Université de Lille
  • Localización: Studia linguistica: A journal of general linguistics, ISSN 0039-3193, Vol. 71, Nº 3, 2017, págs. 337-367
  • Idioma: inglés
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  • Resumen
    • This paper deals with asymmetric complex predicates (combining a main verb and a ‘light’ verb) in Odia, an Indo-Aryan language. The main focus is on the two most common light verbs -jaa ‘go’ and -de ‘give’. We argue that these light verbs are constructions in their own right affecting the interpretation of the event in two ways: (i) they necessarily refer to the completion of the event (as opposed to the single verb construction) and (ii) they typically express unexpectedness or abruptness and can as such be considered a mirative construction as defined by Delancey (2012). Transitivity plays a major role not only in the distinction between -jaa ‘go’ and -de ‘give’ but also in differences of degree of completion and unexpectedness


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