Distribution of light verbs keäš ‘to go’ and koltaš ‘to send’ in Hill Mari

Theodore Golosov
National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract. This article is dedicated to the problem of the distribution of light verbs keäš ‘to go’ and koltaš ‘to send’. It is argued that light verb selection is defined by the syntactical status of the subject of the lexical verb.

Keywords: light verbs, unaccusativity theory

For citation: Golosov Th. Distribution of light verbs keäš ‘to go’ and koltaš ‘to send’ in Hill Mari. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2018. Vol. 1, iss. 2. Pp. 28–45. (In Rus.)