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Joan Maling
4.8.3 Verbs of mixing together and the adverb saman
Many verbs which normally govem accusative on their object govem
dative in the sense of ‘mixing together’ when occurring with the
adverb saman ‘together’ (and/or some other adverb or PP with a sim-
ilar meaning). Some examples are given in (112):
(112) Accusative object: Dative object with saman:
a. blanda drykk ‘fix a drink’ blanda e-u saman ‘mix sth together’
b. hnoða deigið ‘knead the hnoða e-u saman ‘knead sth together’
dough’
c. hræra deigið hræra þurrefnunum saman
‘stir the dough/batter’ ‘mix the dry ingredients together’
d. púsla púsluspilið púsla e-u saman
‘work on a jigsaw puzzle’ ‘put sth (e.g. schedule) together’
If the adverb saman is obligatory whenever the object is marked
dative, this was noted in Maling (1996) by including saman as part of
the lexical entry as illustrated in (113):
(113) blanda e-u saman ‘mix sth together’, hrœra e-u saman ‘stir sth
toghether’, púsla e-u saman ‘put sth together’, raka e-u saman
‘ rake sth together’, vefja e-u samanlum e-ð ‘fold sth together’,
vöðla e-u saman ‘crumple sth together’, þvæla e-u saman
‘crumple sth together’
Other verbs, however, continue to govem accusative even when
they occur with saman:
(114) setja e-ð saman ‘put sth together’, sauma e-ð saman ‘sew sth
together’, líma e-ð saman ‘glue together’, negla e-ð saman
‘nail together’, binda e-ð saman ‘tie together’, bræða e-ð
saman ‘melt together’, sjóða e-ð saman ‘boil together’, klemma
e-ð saman ‘clip together’, hópa sig saman ‘crowd together’,
hnipra sig saman ‘curl up into a ball’, etc.
The second language leamer is likely to be perplexed by the appar-
ently conflicting information in dictionary entries for these verbs. For
example, JHJ gives only hræra e-ð saman (i.e. with accusative)