| Title |
Lithuanian reflexive-based impersonals with accusative objects / |
| Authors |
Spraunienė, Birutė ; Žeimantienė, Vaiva |
| DOI |
10.15388/SBOL.2021.20 |
| ISBN |
9786090706350 |
| eISBN |
9786090706367 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Studies in Baltic and other languages: a festschrift for Axel Holvoet on the occasion of his 65th birthday / Peter Arkadiev, Jurgis Pakerys,Inesa Šeškauskienė, Vaiva Žeimantienė (eds.).. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2021. p. 358-380.. ISBN 9786090706350. eISBN 9786090706367 |
| Keywords [eng] |
impersonal constructions ; non-promoting passives ; reflexives ; autobenefactives ; Lithuanian |
| Abstract [eng] |
This paper surveys Lithuanian impersonal constructions with predicative present passive participles containing non-promoted accusative objects. It is shown that the construction, hitherto considered very rare, is well-attested and productive with one verb class, namely, transitive reflexives. In terms of semantics, transitive reflexives in Lithuanian may be classified as autobenefactives. Autobenefactive reflexives do not exhibit a change in argument structure with respect to their non-reflexive counterparts. In the case of autobenefactives, the morpheme -si- attached to the verb adds the meaning that the subject, which mostly has the semantic role of an agent, benefits from the event expressed by the predicate. On the basis of corpus data, we have analysed how widespread impersonal constructions with accusative objects are within the domain of transitive reflexives and which pattern—the accusative or the nominative—is dominant when both are attested. Lastly, we briefly discuss the temporal-aspectual meaning of reflexive-based impersonals as well as the referential properties of implied agents. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2021 |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2021 |
| CC license |
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