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Martin Haspelmath, « Where I went wrong (II): Converbs are not “non-finite verbal adverbs” », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/11r1d
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Another way in which I went wrong in the 1990s was by proposing a definition of converb as a “non-finite verbal adverb” (see this earlier blogpost about my error about iconicity). At the time (Haspelmath 1995), I was quite naïve about the traditional notions of “finiteness” and “adverb”, and I now think that defining “converb” in this way was not a good idea. Of course, the 1995 paper was not wrong in drawing wrong conclusions or making wrong claims – the mistake was at the conceptual level....