Serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages /
edited by Gunter Senft.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Canberra, ACT : Pacific Linguistics, Research School Of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2008.
- Summary
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"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.
- Physical Description
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vii, 230 p. :
map ;
26 cm.
- ISBN
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0858835916
9780858835917
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