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Author | : Mark Sebba |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902725222X |
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This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the literature. As a case study, the serial constructions of Sranan, a creole language of Surinam with an English lexical base, are examined in detail.
Author | : Carol Lord |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027229139 |
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This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and lexical change.The process by which verbs lose lexical semantic content and develop case-marking functions is described; it is argued that the change is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to affix, along a grammaticalization continuum. This same grammaticalization process is shown to result in the development of complementizers, adverbial subordinators, conjunctions, adverbs and auxiliaries from verbs. Strong parallels across languages are found in the meanings of the verbs that become defective and in the functions they come to mark. The changes are documented in detail, with examples from a number of languages illustrating the effect of the changes on typology and word order, implications for the encoding of definiteness and aspect, and the relevance of notions such as discourse topic, foreground and transitivity.With respect to theoretical assumptions and terminology, the author has taken a relatively nonpartisan approach, and the discussion is accessible to students of language as well as of interest to theoreticians.
Author | : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2005-12-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191535400 |
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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.
Author | : Sookhee Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | : 9788977350359 |
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Author | : Claire Lefebvre |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027223246 |
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The papers in this volume offer several analyses of verb serialization written within various theoretical frameworks: grammatical, comparative and cognitive/functional. They cover a wide range of language families. All authors address two basic questions about verb serialization: First, what is the structure and thematic constitution of the construction? The answers to this question cover the spectrum of the options that are available in current grammatical theory. Second, what aspect of the grammar differentiates between languages which have serial constructions and those which do not? The specific proposals made by the authors are discussed by R. Larson in the concluding paper. Larson opens new perspectives for research on verb serialization by posing the following question: what analogues for verb serialization can be found in the more familiar grammatical apparatus of English? It is suggested that verb serialization finds a clear parallel in the secondary predicate structures of English.
Author | : Terry Crowley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780198241355 |
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Terry Crowley introduces the idea of serial verbs which are clauses that include multiple verbs or verb-like items that are used to convey a single meaning like wash the plates clean. The author argues that their formation is a consequence of contact between different languages.
Author | : Nerida Jarkey |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 900429239X |
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In Serial Verbs in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey investigates verb serialization, a highly productive grammatical strategy in this dynamic Southeast Asian language in which multiple verbs are simply concatenated within a single clause to depict a single event. The investigation identifies four major types of serial verb construction (SVC) in White Hmong and finds that the key function of all these types is to depict a single event in an elaborate and vivid way, a much-favoured method of description in this language. These findings concerning the nature and function of SVCs in White Hmong contribute to broader discussions on the nature of events as both cognitive and cultural constructs.
Author | : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199279152 |
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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.
Author | : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
Publisher | : Oxford Studies in Typology and |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198791267 |
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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.
Author | : Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1135726744 |
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An investigation of the serial verb construction, this work engages central issues in syntactic theory-complex predicates, clausal architecture and syntactic variation.