Lietuvių kalbos <em>gauti</em> ir <em>tekti</em>: gramatinimo aspektai
<p><strong>LITHUANIAN <em>GAUTI</em> (‘GET’) AND <em>TEKTI</em> (‘BE GOTTEN’): ASPECTS OF GRAMMATICALIZATION</strong></p><p><em>Summary</em></p><p>The paper deals with the Lithuanian <em>get</em>-verbs <em&g...
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| Language: | deu |
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Vilnius University
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Baltistica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/article/view/1314 |
| Summary: | <p><strong>LITHUANIAN <em>GAUTI</em> (‘GET’) AND <em>TEKTI</em> (‘BE GOTTEN’): ASPECTS OF GRAMMATICALIZATION</strong></p><p><em>Summary</em></p><p>The paper deals with the Lithuanian <em>get</em>-verbs <em>gauti</em> (‘get’) and <em>tekti</em> (‘be gotten’) within the framework of grammaticalization. The purpose of the paper is to analyze semantic as well as morphosyntactic properties of the verbs under the study and to disclose their tendencies towards grammaticalization. Following the point of view that the very beginning of the process of grammaticalization is in the context of a particular construction the focus of the paper is on the constructional patterns in which the verbs <em>gauti</em> (‘get’) and <em>tekti</em> (‘be gotten’) appear and on the basic types of complements of the verbs. Since frequency is considered to be an important indicator of grammaticalization, the paper looks at the quantitative distribution of basic structural types of complements used with the Lithuanian <em>get</em>-verbs under analysis. Besides, types of modal meanings which <em>gauti</em> (‘get’) and <em>tekti</em> (‘be gotten’) denote are analyzed as well.</p><p>The Lithuanian verbs <em>gauti</em> (‘get’) and <em>tekti</em> (‘be gotten’) express an ingressive aspect of possession, i.e. onset of possession or acquisition. As lexical verbs with the meaning of acquisition the Lithuanian <em>get</em>-verbs are found in the constructional patterns with NP as their grammatical object. When the noun possessed denotes a concrete entity, the verbs have the meaning of concrete acquisition, and when the noun denotes an abstract entity, the verbs express an abstract acquisition. Both verbs <em>gauti</em> (‘get’) and <em>tekti</em> (‘be gotten’) more often tend to express abstract acquisition. However, there are some differences in the possibilities of expressing the lexical meaning of acquisition: only the verb <em>gauti</em> (‘get’) most frequently functions as the full lexical verb and the verb <em>tekti</em> (‘be gotten’), in contrast, functions as the modal verb.</p>Modal meanings of the Lithuanian <em>get</em>-verbs are expressed by the constructions with an infinitival complement (INF). Both of the verbs <em>gauti</em> (‘get’) and <em>tekti</em> (‘be gotten’) denote non-epistemic necessity and non-epistemic possibility. However, the meaning of non-epistemic possibility seems to be very peripheral for the Lithuanian <em>get</em>-verbs. It is worth to notice that the modal verb <em>tekti</em> (‘be gotten’), besides its modal meanings, in certain contexts tend to mark aspectual meaning of perfectivity. However, the conclusion about the status of the verb <em>tekti</em> (‘be gotten’) as an aspectual marker requires further analysis. |
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| ISSN: | 0132-6503 2345-0045 |