Published 2023-12-01
“…They are, however, scarcely recognized as such (maybe except for the pradėjo and ėmė constructions with infinitive) in traditional Lithuanian
lexicography. A construction grammar approach to the phenomenon of the phasal complementation allows us to treat the inceptive constructions under discussion uniformly, as members of the same grammatical category, and the verbs mentioned above, when serving as inceptive markers of the infinitival event, can reasonably go under separate senses in dictionary entries, especially in the cases when the inceptive constructions these verbs underlie are well entrenched in language usage.
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