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Serial Verb Constructions
A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon
400 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-923342-7
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Paperback
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02 August 2007
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- New work by distinguished, international scholars
- Designed for use in graduate courses
- Explores a neglected aspect of linguistics
- Reveals aspects of mind-language relations
- Covers several endangered languages
- Second volume in an important series in linguistic typology
- Combines studies of well-known languages such as Cantonese or Thai and of less known endangered languages
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-gatherer and 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, and are 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 and anthroplogy. Readership: Scholars of linguistic typology and language universals in departments of linguistics and anthroplogy. Students taking graduate courses in syntax, typology, language universals, information structure, and language contact.
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Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, and R.M.W. Dixon, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University Contributors:
Felix K. Ameka, University of Leiden
Azeb Amha, University of Cologne
Anthony Diller, University of Sydney
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, University of Cologne
Alexandre Francois, Lacito-CNRS
John Hajek, University of Melbourne
Birgit Hellwig, School of Oriental and African Studies
Andrew Ingram, La Trobe University
Christa Kilian-Hatz, University of Frankfurt am Main
Frantisek
Lichtenber, University of Auckland
Stephen Matthews, University of Hong Kong
Willem J. de Reuse, University of North Texas, Denton
David B. Solnit, University of California, Berkeley
Roberto Zavala, CIESAS-Sureste
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"...the book is a feast for thought. Anyone with an interest in SVCs and related types of complex predicate must read it..." - N.J.Enfield, Language
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1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Serial Verb Constructions in Typological Perspective
2: Stephen Matthews: On Serial Verb Constructions in Cantonese
3: Birgit Hellwig: Serial Verb Constructions in Goemai
4: Christa Kilian-Hatz: Serial Verb Constructions in Khwe (Central-Khoisan)
5: Felix K. Ameka: Ewe Serial Verb Constructions in their Grammatical Context
6: David B. Solnit: Verb Serialization in Eastern Kayah Li
7: A.V.N. Diller: Thai Serial Verbs: Cohesion and Culture
8: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Serial Verb Constructions in Tariana
9: Andrew Ingram: Serial Verb Constructions in Dumo
10: Alexandre Francois: Serial Verb Constructions in Mwotlap
11: John Hajek: Serial Verbs in Tetun Dili
12: Frantisek Lichtenberk: Serial Verb Constructions in Toqabaqita
13: Roberto Zavala: Serial Verbs in Olutec (Mixean)
14: Willem J. de Reuse: Serial Verbs in Lakota (Siouan)
15: Azeb Amha and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Verbal Compounding in Wolaitta
16: R. M. W. Dixon: Serial Verb Constructions: Conspectus and Coda
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
Index of Languages, Language Families, and Areas
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