Individualism ‒ collectivism and the selection of the pronominal subject in yoga instructions in Polish and Russian

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The rise of the WZIĄĆ (TAKE) Serial Verb Construction in Polish

“…Hopper & Traugott 2003). Under this proposal, a bi-verbal, bi-event, bi-clausal, and bipredicative structure -i.e., two clauses coordinated by a canonical coordinator i 'and' -has enhanced its cohesiveness by acquiring a mono-event, mono-predicative, and mono-clausal 1 However, the research on the bi-verbal constructions with the verb wziąć (including the wziąć SVC), especially with regard to the semantic-pragmatic characteristics of their imperative variants, has a long tradition in Polish, as illustrated by the following works presented by Bąba & Mikołajczyk (1974), Perczyńska (1975), Bartmiński (1978), Śledź (2001), Królak & Rudnicka (2006), Komorowska (2008), Góralczyk (2010), Gębka-Wolak (2012), Bańko (2012), and Zinken (2013). For a more detailed review of these studies and their respective analyses of the patterns built around the verb wziąć, consult Andrason (2018a;2019a).…”

“…The inclusion of an example into the PC and SVC categories has primarily been achieved by means of semantic factors, namely: (a) the (more or less patent) mono-event interpretation of a given sequence and, related to it, (b) the use of the verb wziąć in senses that diverge from its literal meaning 'take'. In such cases, rather than expressing two separate events (simultaneous or consecutive), the bi-verbal structures with wziąć (with or without lexemes that are homophonous with coordinators) express a single (or "compact") event and exhibit a constructional meaning of "emotional emphasis" (Andrason 2018a:607)i.e., intensity, insistence, immediacy, impatience, irritation, criticism -surprise, spontaneity, and/or effortlessness (Góralczyk 2010;Zinken 2013;Andrason 2018a:607-610). Since our http://spilplus.journals.ac.za study focuses on formal aspects, we will not provide a detailed semantic analysis of the cited examples.…”