Bengali Constructions
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Among issues concerning socalled 'verb compounds', or 'v-v-sequences', are:
- how to gloss each of the verbs;
- how to gloss the 'participial' morpheme.
Consider this annotated token:
আমি পড়ে গেলাম
“I fell down”
| āmi |
| āmi |
| I1SG |
| PN |
| paṛe | |
| poṛ | e |
| fall | CMPL |
| V | |
| gelām | |
| ge | lām |
| go | 1P |
| V2 | |
Here 'e' is glossed 'CMPL', for 'completed', which is motivated by the fact that this so-called 'participial' form expresses completedness.
As for the verbs as wholes, one tradition calls the 'free' verb (the first one) the POLE verb and the other verb the VECTOR verb. Should these notions be used here?
Less telling is using 'V1' and 'V2'. For the time being, they are labeled 'V' and 'V2'.
--Lars 11:53, 10 December 2009 (UTC)