Matches and mismatches in Swedish [gå och V] ‘go/walk and V’
An exemplar-based perspective
This article studies the pseudo-coordination [gå ‘go/walk’ och ‘and’
V]. The construction has several meanings and it also has subordination counterparts in Modern Swedish,
unlike most Swedish pseudo-coordinations. Our diachronic study shows that [gå och V] cannot readily be reduced to
the verbs in isolation and that synchronic lexicocentric perspectives based on syntactic (re)configurations cannot capture the
constructional meaning such as the assumed inference of ‘surprise’ or ’unexpectedness’. We argue that a detailed analysis of the
historical development makes the picture clearer.
In the development of [gå och V], item-based analogy continuously facilitates new verbs in the V
slot. At a certain stage, there is a mismatch between the agentivity of the construction and the non-agentivity of events denoted
by the second verb. This mismatch is resolved by the override principle that forces non-agentive verbs to be interpreted
agentively and promote a more abstract and lexicalized version of the construction. The exemplar-based view to constructions
proposed by Bybee (2010, 2013) seems
favorable, since frequent exemplars of [gå och V] allow for redundant or marginal features to serve as the model
for novel expansions of the construction.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical background
- 2.1Pseudo-coordination and previous studies of [gå och V]
- 2.2Constructional approaches to grammatical change: The role of mismatch and item-based analogy
- 2.3The exemplar model and change in constructions
- 3.Method(s) and data
- 4.The development of [gå och V]
- 4.1[Gå och V] in Old Swedish
- 4.1.1The variation between [gå och V] ‘go/walk and V’ and [gå att
v] ‘go/walk to v.inf’
- 4.2[Gå och V] in Early Modern Swedish
- 4.3[Gå och V] in late Modern Swedish
- 4.4Summary and the role of mismatch in the development of [gå och V]
- 5.Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
-
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