Posture, location, and activity in Mainland Scandinavian pseudocoordinations

Kinn, Torodd; Blensenius, Kristian; Andersson, Peter

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“…The term pseudo-coordination is generally used for cases of VP coordination in which the two VPs code only one event. This “single-event meaning” (Kinn et al 2018) distinguishes pseudo-coordination from coordination proper semantically 1 . A number of formal criteria for distinguishing between the two types of coordination have also been proposed in the literature, but these criteria vary from study to study and from language to language.…”

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“…Crosslinguistically, PC tends to contain specific, semantically basic verbs in the first conjunct, most commonly motion verbs, such as come and go , posture verbs, such as sit , stand , or lie , change-of-posture verbs, such as sit down , stand up , or lie down , and some other intransitive or transitive verbs, such as try and take . While it is important to note that pseudo-coordination is not restricted to this set of verbs (for example, Hopper 2002:170, Kinn et al 2018), it is these verbs that are generally well-known sources of grammaticalization crosslinguistically (see, among others, Hilpert & Koops 2008:245, Paul 2022, Fleischhauer, this issue). The first indicator of incipient grammaticalization of first verbs in PC is, of course, the construction’s single event meaning.…”

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“…The most grammaticalized German construction for expressing progressivity is the so-called am-progressive (for example, Krause 2002, Van Pottelberge 2004, Flick 2016, Kuhmichel 2016. Another construction that is known to be used for expressing progressivity in Germanic languages, especially Mainland Scandinavian (for instance, Hesse 2009, Lødrup 2014, Kinn et al 2018, but also in non-Germanic languages, for example, Bulgarian (Kuteva 1999), is posture verb pseudo-coordination (henceforth posture verb PC). So far, this construction has been claimed not to belong to the inventory of constructions for expressing progressivity in German (for example, Ebert 2000, Hesse 2009, Behrens et al 2013) and, accordingly, has not been studied for German.…”

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Pseudo-Coordinated Sitzen and Stehen in Spoken German: A Case of Emergent Progressive Aspect?

Proske

2023

J Ger Ling

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This paper investigates the aspectual potential of posture verb pseudo-coordination in spoken German. In a corpus study of sitzen ‘sit’ and stehen ‘stand’, it is shown that despite a preference for activity verbs, verbs of all aspectual classes occur in the second conjunct. The posture verb imposes its durative meaning component on the second verb, thus making a progressive interpretation of the construction possible. Apart from this emergent aspectual function, German posture verb pseudo-coordination has a subjective function (conveying the speaker’s beliefs about the subject referent’s stance), and a discourse pragmatic function (information packaging).*

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Pseudo-Coordinated Sitzen and Stehen in Spoken German: A Case of Emergent Progressive Aspect?

Proske

2023

J Ger Ling

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“…One can identify obvious realities associated with these postures without the need for expert opinion (Newman, 2002a, pp. 1-3;Kinn et al, 2018). The main properties we can identify are summarized in (1).…”

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“…34–38) discusses properties of what he calls an “associated posture construction” in Lao, that is, a construction consisting of posture verb and action verb, and how the meaning of this construction differs from simple action sequences like “fall” + “break”. In their study of “posture verb pseudo‐coordination”, based on corpora from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, Kinn et al (2018) found different associations for each posture verb: “sit” is most associated with written and spoken communication, consumption, and manual activities performed with the hands; “stand” is most associated with foot motion, maintaining or regaining balance, vision, and communication; “lie” is most associated with sleep, rest, inactivity, helplessness, deterioration, and death. The authors argue for the idea that the posture itself “facilitates” concomitant events, that is, the posture provides “the required stability of posture and Location for a certain Duration” (Kinn et al, 2018, para.…”

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Experiential motivation and the linguistics of sitting, standing, and lying

Newman

2022

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The three human at‐rest postures of sitting, standing, and lying are basic, recurring features of human behavior and may reasonably be called primary postures. The three postures share the property of being stable through time, but they are also differentiated in terms of their overall shape, their physiological properties, and typical associated behaviors such as the association of sitting with social interaction, and lying with sleeping. The experiential realities of the three postures underlie and motivate a range of cross‐linguistic phenomena involving morphemes with meanings of “sit”, “stand,” and “lie”. The relevant linguistic phenomena include higher frequencies of occurrence compared with other kinds of posture verbs and differential behavior with respect to some morphosyntactic patterns involving notions such as agentivity. The posture morphemes can also be the source for a variety of semantic extensions reflecting experiential realities of the postures, such as the extension of “lie” to mean “sleep” in some languages. Extensions also include grammaticalizations of the posture morphemes to locative and aspectual markers which reflect the temporal stability and spatial fixedness of the postures themselves. This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Cognitive Linguistics Linguistics > Language in Mind and Brain

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Guest Editors’ Preface

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2023

J Ger Ling

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This volume brings together five studies on newly emerging aspectual expressions in West Germanic languages. 1 Compared to other Indo-European languages, the verbal systems of early Germanic languages were poorly stocked with grammatical aspect forms that only developed over time (for instance, ing-progressive in English, the double perfect constructions in German, pseudo-coordination with posture verbs sit and stand in Mainland Scandinavian languages). This makes modern Germanic languages a promising field of research when it comes to exploring the evolution of aspectual distinctions.Previous research has focused on a particular set of-mainly verbalconstructions, such as progressives and present perfect constructions. The papers collected in this special issue offer a fresh look at aspectuality in Germanic languages. Ranging in topics from verbal and prepositional constructions to lexical means of expression, they deal with a variety of aspectual forms, all of which have received none or only little attention up to now. The articles focus on standard languages (Dutch, German), nonstandardized varieties (Middle Low German) as well as written and spoken languages (German), and offer new insights into the following central issues: i) sources of aspectual expressions, ii) properties of earlystage aspectual markers, and iii) new methods for analyzing aspectual constructions.When it comes to sources of aspectual expressions and areal clustering of marker types, progressive pseudo-coordinations with posture verbs are well-known from Scandinavian languages (for example, Kinn et al. 2018). Proske shows that similar constructions with pseudo-coordinated sitzen 'sit' and stehen 'stand' are currently emerging in spoken German, whilst being characterized by a lower degree of grammaticalization than their Scandinavian counterparts. Posture verbs may also serve as a basis for 1 The contributions are based on papers presented at the workshop Encoding Aspectuality in Germanic Languages: Empirical and theoretical approaches, which took place during the 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, DGfS) held in Freiburg (Germany) in February 2021.

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Posture, location, and activity in Mainland Scandinavian pseudocoordinations

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Pseudo-Coordinated Sitzen and Stehen in Spoken German: A Case of Emergent Progressive Aspect?

Pseudo-Coordinated Sitzen and Stehen in Spoken German: A Case of Emergent Progressive Aspect?

Experiential motivation and the linguistics of sitting, standing, and lying

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