Russian ‘Spontaneous Inceptive’ Constructions with Partial Grammaticalization of the Verb Pojti : Towards an Analysis of History and Structure
The paper investigates the Russian construction of ‘spontaneous inceptive’ consisting of the perfective motion verb pojti and a dependent infinitive (e.g., pošël krošit' ), which emerged at the beginning of the 19th century. The construction conveys the sudden, uncontrolled, and increasingly intense onset of a re...