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Serial verb constructions : a cross-linguistic typology / edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon

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Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 369 pages) : illustrations
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Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡. (Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna) and Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-
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English.
Contents
Contents; Preface; Notes on the Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE; 2 ON SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN CANTONESE; 3 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN GOEMAI; 4 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN KHWE (CENTRAL-KHOISAN); 5 EWE SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN THEIR GRAMMATICAL CONTEXT; 6 VERB SERIALIZATION IN EASTERN KAYAH LI; 7 THAI SERIAL VERBS: COHESION AND CULTURE; 8 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN TARIANA; 9 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN DUMO; 10 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN MWOTLAP; 11 SERIAL VERBS IN TETUN DILI; 12 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN TOQABAQITA. and 13 SERIAL VERBS IN OLUTEC (MIXEAN)14 SERIAL VERBS IN LAKOTA (SIOUAN); 15 VERBAL COMPOUNDING IN WOLAITTA; 16 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS: CONSPECTUS AND CODA; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects; Index of languages, language families, and areas.
Summary
A serial verb construction (sometimes just called serial verb) is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. 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. - ;This volume of new work explores the forms and fun.
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ISBN
9780191535406 (electronic bk.)
0191535400 (electronic bk.)
9780199279159 (Cloth)
0199279152 (Cloth)
1280905913
9781280905919
9781429470896
1429470895
9786610905911
6610905916
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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