The affactivefå‘get’ construction in Danish

Abstract

As in many other Germanic languages, Modern Danish combines the verb få ‘get’ and a semantic main verb in the supine form (the uninflected perfect participle). Three main types of the construction are found: an agentive type typically interpreted as expressing successful intentional action and two non-agentive types: one with a ditransitive main verb and promotion of the indirect object to subject status, and one with a non-valency-bound subject typically interpreted as a Beneficiary. Based on a functional framework, the paper presents a corpus study of the construction and an analysis unifying all three main types in a common Affactive Construction whose functional contribution is the specification of the subject as an Afficiary (Beneficiary or Maleficiary). The distinction between agentive and non-agentive interpretation is analysed as a voice distinction between active and passive.

Den danske indirekte medium i diakron belysning

“…I søgning efter IM-eksempler viser det sig at sig-udbygningen meget ofte forekommer i den såkaldte interessentkonstruktion (Nielsen 2018(Nielsen , 2022. På udtrykssiden er denne konstruktion en kombination af få og et hovedverbum i supinum, jf.…”