Serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages
By: edited by Gunter Senft.
Contributors: Senft, Gunter, 1952-; Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics.
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics, Research School Of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Canberra, ACT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780858835917
Subjects: Austronesian languages -- Verb phrase; Papuan languages -- Verb phrase; Austronesian languages -- Syntax; Papuan languages -- Syntax; Typology (Linguistics)
Description: "This volume of new work explores the nature of verb serialisation in a range of languages from the Pacific region - both Austronesian and non-Austronesian. Serial verbs can be described linguistically as a sequence of verbs which behave as a single complex predicate. A particular focus of this book is the detailed examination given by most authors to the relationship of such uniclausal linguistic structures with the real world notion of eventhood. The book also makes a valuable addition to the description and analysis of serial verb constructions from the Pacific, a region which has generally been under-represented in cross-linguistic discussions of verb serialisation. The book will appeal to syntacticians and typologists as well as to Austronesianists and Papuanists."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.