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Serial Verbs (Hardcover)
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Serial Verbs (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
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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.
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