Serial Verbs
Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches
Editor
The papers in this volume offer several analyses of verb serialization written within various theoretical frameworks: grammatical, comparative and cognitive/functional. They cover a wide range of language families. All authors address two basic questions about verb serialization: First, what is the structure and thematic constitution of the construction? The answers to this question cover the spectrum of the options that are available in current grammatical theory. Second, what aspect of the grammar differentiates between languages which have serial constructions and those which do not? The specific proposals made by the authors are discussed by R. Larson in the concluding paper. Larson opens new perspectives for research on verb serialization by posing the following question: what analogues for verb serialization can be found in the more familiar grammatical apparatus of English? It is suggested that verb serialization finds a clear parallel in the secondary predicate structures of English.
[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 8] 1991. viii, 210 pp.
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Table of Contents
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Preface | p. vii
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Misumalpan Verb Sequencing ConstuctionsKenneth L. Hale | p. 1
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Take Serial Verb Constructions in FonClaire Lefebvre | p. 37
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On the Relation of Serialization to Verb ExtensionsMark C. Baker | p. 79
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On Deriving Serial Verb ConstructionsYafei Li | p. 103
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Some Substantive Issues Concerning Verb Serialization: Grammatical vs. Cognitive PackagingT. Givón | p. 137
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Some Issues in Verb SerializationRichard K. Larson | p. 185
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General