Structures with BŪDAMAS: their semantics and morphosyntactic marking
The paper discusses half-participle structures where the half-participle of būti (‘to be') functions as a copula. The discussion is based on extensive typological linguistic research and universal grammatical hierarchies. Such structures function as free secondary predicates: either as (a) depi...
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| description | The paper discusses half-participle structures where the half-participle of būti (‘to be') functions as a copula. The discussion is based on extensive typological linguistic research and universal grammatical hierarchies. Such structures function as free secondary predicates: either as (a) depictives or as (b) circumstantial predicates, cf. (a) Kalanta mirtį pasirinko būdamas devyniolikmetis (‘Kalanta Nom [his] death Acc chose being Nom a nineteen-year old Nom'); (b) Būdamas mažas ganė gyvulius (‘Being Nom small Nom [=a child] [he] pastured herds Acc'). Typically, in unmarked cases, circumstantial predicates are used (but not confined to the position) before the main predicate thus constituting part of a sentence and (or) analytically. Depictives, however, tend to occur after the main predicate and are encoded as a bare case. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c5763e4c4b044d3fbabadc7db16f83792022-12-21T19:06:36ZdeuVilnius UniversityLietuvių Kalba1822-525X2010-10-01410.15388/LK.2010.22853Structures with BŪDAMAS: their semantics and morphosyntactic markingLoreta Vaičiulytė-Semėnienė0The Institute of the Lithuanian LanguageThe paper discusses half-participle structures where the half-participle of būti (‘to be') functions as a copula. The discussion is based on extensive typological linguistic research and universal grammatical hierarchies. Such structures function as free secondary predicates: either as (a) depictives or as (b) circumstantial predicates, cf. (a) Kalanta mirtį pasirinko būdamas devyniolikmetis (‘Kalanta Nom [his] death Acc chose being Nom a nineteen-year old Nom'); (b) Būdamas mažas ganė gyvulius (‘Being Nom small Nom [=a child] [he] pastured herds Acc'). Typically, in unmarked cases, circumstantial predicates are used (but not confined to the position) before the main predicate thus constituting part of a sentence and (or) analytically. Depictives, however, tend to occur after the main predicate and are encoded as a bare case.https://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuviu-kalba/article/view/22853none |
| spellingShingle | Loreta Vaičiulytė-Semėnienė Structures with BŪDAMAS: their semantics and morphosyntactic marking Lietuvių Kalba none |
| title | Structures with BŪDAMAS: their semantics and morphosyntactic marking |
| title_full | Structures with BŪDAMAS: their semantics and morphosyntactic marking |
| title_fullStr | Structures with BŪDAMAS: their semantics and morphosyntactic marking |
| title_full_unstemmed | Structures with BŪDAMAS: their semantics and morphosyntactic marking |
| title_short | Structures with BŪDAMAS: their semantics and morphosyntactic marking |
| title_sort | structures with budamas their semantics and morphosyntactic marking |
| topic | none |
| url | https://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuviu-kalba/article/view/22853 |
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