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Author: Mark Sebba Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 902725222X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 242
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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: Mark Sebba Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 902725222X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
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 ISBN: 9027229139 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 284
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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: Terry Crowley Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780198241355 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 308
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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 ISBN: 900429239X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 322
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In this book, Nerida Jarkey investigates the highly productive strategy of verb serialisation and reveals that its key function in this dynamic Southeast Asian language is to depict a single event in an elaborate and vivid way.
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 0199279152 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 394
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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-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.
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192508776 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 336
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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.
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd Publisher: Oxford Studies in Typology and ISBN: 0198791267 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 321
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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: Angela Terrill Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 9783110178876 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 596
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The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd Publisher: ISBN: 9781383042412 Category : Grammar, Comparative and general Languages : en Pages : 0
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A serial verb construction is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. The authors examine form and function of serial verbs and also explore the phenomenon across languages of different typological and genetic profiles.
Author: Mark Sebba
Author: Mark Sebba
Author: Carol Lord
Author: Terry Crowley
Author: Nerida Jarkey
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Author: Angela Terrill
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Author: Margaretha Anna Flora Klamer