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Lingvisticæ Investigationes
Vol. 47:1 (2024) ► pp.68–97

On the telic senses of the Serbian verb stići and its French equivalent arriver

| Independent researcher
| University in Kragujevac,
| University of Montpellier,
This article analyzes the specific temporal uses of the Serbian verb stići, when it denotes the act of overcoming a spatial obstacle, or reaching the end point of a movement at a predetermined time. The study examines the relationship between the spatial (basic) use of this verb and its derived telic sense, and describes the process of its grammaticalization, in which this lexeme loses its semantic and syntactic autonomy and becomes part of a complex predicate. The contrastive section of the study compares the non-spatial uses of stići with the corresponding uses of its French equivalent, the verb arriver.
Keywords: telicity, time, grammaticalization, semantics, typology
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.On the basic sense of the verb stići
    • 2.1The semantic structure of the verb stići
    • 2.2The resultative and non-resultative aspect of the verb stići
  • 3.The non-spatial sense of the verb stići
    • 3.1 Stići occurring with nouns referring to places
    • 3.2The verb stići from an event-based perspective
    • 3.3The verb stići with other types of complements
  • 4.The verb stići as part of complex predicates
  • 5.Contrasting the Serbian verb and its French counterpart
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Author queries
  • References
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