Grammaticalization of the verb šuaš ‘throw’: What is left of throws?

Fedor Golosov
National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract. The aim of this article is to give an analysis of Hill Mari light verb šuaš ‘to throw’, which would predict both selective restrictions of the light verb and semantics of derived complex predicates. Additionally, author compares the grammaticalized verb with its lexical source and argues that many properties of the light verb are predictable from its lexical meaning.

Keywords: complex predicates, light verbs, serialization, grammaticalization of verb with meaning ‘throw’, event structure, actionality

For citation: Golosov F. Grammaticalization of the verb šuaš ‘throw’: What is left of throws? Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2019. Vol. 2, iss. 2. Pp. 54–78. (In Rus.)