Serial Verb Constructions: A Cross-Linguistic TypologyAleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd, R.M.W. Dixon OUP Oxford, 2006 - 369 pages This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The introduction sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of variation, and the final chapter draws out a set of conclusions. These frame fourteen explorations of serial verb constructions and similar structures in languages from Asia, Africa, North, Central and South America, and the Pacific. Chapters on well-known languages such as Cantonese and Thai are set alongside the languages of small hunter-gathererand slash-and-burn agriculturalist groups.A serial verb construction (sometimes just called serial verb) is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. Each describes what can be conceptualized as a single event. They are monoclausal; their intonational properties are those of a monoverbal clause; they generally have just one tense, aspect, mood, and polarity value; and they are an important tool in cognitive packaging of events. Serial verb constructions are a pervasive feature of isolating languages of Asia and West Africa, andare also found in the languages of the Pacific, South, Central and North America, most of them endangered.Serial verbs have been a subject of interest among linguists for some time. This outstanding book is the first to study the phenomenon across languages of different typological and genetic profiles. The authors, all experienced linguistic fieldworkers, follow a unified typological approach and avoid formalisms. The book will interest students, at graduate level and above, of syntax, typology, language universals, information structure, and language contact. in departments of linguistics andanthroplogy. |
Table des matières
1 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE | 1 |
2 ON SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN CANTONESE | 69 |
3 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN GOEMAI | 88 |
4 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN KHWE CENTRALKHOISAN | 108 |
5 EWE SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN THEIR GRAMMATICAL CONTEXT | 124 |
6 VERB SERIALIZATION IN EASTERN KAYAH LI | 144 |
COHESION AND CULTURE | 160 |
8 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN TARIANA | 178 |
11 SERIAL VERBS IN TETUN DILI | 239 |
12 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN TOQABAQITA | 254 |
13 SERIAL VERBS IN OLUTEC MIXEAN | 273 |
14 SERIAL VERBS IN LAKOTA SIOUAN | 301 |
15 VERBAL COMPOUNDING IN WOLAITTA | 319 |
CONSPECTUS AND CODA | 338 |
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9 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN DUMO | 202 |
10 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN MWOTLAP | 223 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Serial Verb Constructions: A Cross-linguistic Typology Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |
Serial Verb Constructions:A Cross-Linguistic Typology: A Cross-Linguistic ... Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon Aucun aperçu disponible - 2005 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
adverbs African languages Aikhenvald Alamblak argument structure aspect asymmetrical SVCs Cantonese cause–eVect Chapter clause combinations complement complex concordant marking contiguous converb cross-linguistic deWned deWnition directional discussed diVerent Dumo Dyirbal Eastern Kayah edited eVect event event-argument example expressed function Goemai grammatical words grammaticalization iconic inchoative intransitive inXected keoi5 Khwe Kristang Lakota Linguistic Typology Linguistics main verb major verb marker meaning minor verb modality modiWer morpheme motion verbs multi-word multiverb Mwotlap negation ngo5 nominal noun object occur Oceanic languages Olutec particle person phonological word predicate prepositions preWxes properties R. M. W. Dixon restricted second verb semantic sequence serial constructions serial verb constructions serialisation serializing languages slot speakers speciWc subevents subtypes suYx switch-function symmetrical serial verb syntactic Table Tariana tense Tetun Dili Thai Toqabaqita transitive verbs type of SVC typology valency verb serialization verbal compounds Wnish Wolaitta Wrst verb yes yes