Semantics of the light verb tok ‘leave’ in Poshkart Chuvash

Fedor Golosov
National Research University Higher School of Economics / University of Maryland

Abstract. This article is dedicated to the semantics of the light verb tok ‘leave’ in the Poshkart (Maloye Karachkino) dialect of Chuvash. The semantic properties of the light verb are discussed in detail, and it is argued that the light verb is an aspectual operator forming telic complex predicates with the meaning of full coverage of an object by the action.

Keywords: light verbs, actionality, aspect, distributivity, complex predicates

For citation: Golosov F. Semantics of the light verb tok ‘leave’ in Poshkart Chuvash. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2021. Vol. 4, iss. 1. Pp. 53–74. (In Rus.)