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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 August 2007
- ISBN 9780199233427
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages394 pages
- Size 233x155x23 mm
- Weight 599 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A serial verb construction is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. This oustanding 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.
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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-gatherer and 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, and are 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 and anthroplogy.
...the book is a feast for thought. Anyone with an interest in SVCs and related types of complex predicate must read it...
Table of Contents:
Serial Verb Constructions in Typological Perspective
On Serial Verb Constructions in Cantonese
Serial Verb Constructions in Goemai
Serial Verb Constructions in Khwe (Central-Khoisan)
Ewe Serial Verb Constructions in their Grammatical Context
Verb Serialization in Eastern Kayah Li
Thai Serial Verbs: Cohesion and Culture
Serial Verb Constructions in Tariana
Serial Verb Constructions in Dumo
Serial Verb Constructions in Mwotlap
Serial Verbs in Tetun Dili
Serial Verb Constructions in Toqabaqita
Serial Verbs in Olutec (Mixean)
Serial Verbs in Lakota (Siouan)
Verbal Compounding in Wolaitta
Serial Verb Constructions: Conspectus and Coda
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
Index of Languages, Language Families, and Areas
