Serial Verbs
Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 October 2018
- ISBN 9780198791263
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages322 pages
- Size 243x163x23 mm
- Weight 640 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate. It uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations.
MoreLong description:
This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs in the construction have the same tense, aspect, mood, modality, and evidentiality values, cannot be negated or questioned separately, and usually share the same subject and object. They are a powerful means of portraying various facets of one event, and can express grammatical meanings such as aspect, direction, and causation, particularly in languages where few other means are available.
In this volume, Alexandra Aikhenvald seeks to answer unresolved questions such as: What are the parameters of variation in serial verbs? How do serial verbs differ from other, superficially similar multi-verb constructions? How do serial verbs emerge, and what happens to them over time? What role do they play in the representation of event structure? The book uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations. It will be of interest to researchers and students from a wide range of fields of linguistics, especially typology, anthropological linguistics, and language contact.
Aikhenvald has performed a great service by providing linguists with both a framework and an explicit vocabulary for describing and analyzing serial verb phenomena, not to mention an extensive empirical database of illustrative forms. Given the broad implications that SVCs have for syntactic and semantic analysis, general linguists cannot afford to miss out on the insights of this valuable book. They will find it a pleasure to read such a well-written book.
Table of Contents:
Serial verbs: The framework
Recognizing a serial verb
Composition and meanings of serial verbs
Formal properties of serial verbs
The limits of serial verbs
The many facets of serial verbs
What are serial verbs good for?
The rise and fall of serial verbs
The essence of serial verbs: What can we conclude?
Fieldworker's guide to serial verb constructions
References
Index
