Multi-verb constructions in Eastern Indonesia
Constructions with multiple verbal elements have posed a long-standing challenge to linguistic analysis. Most studies of verb serialisation have been confined to single languages rather than looking at crosslinguistic patterns. This book provides the first indepth account into the areal characterist...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Berlin :
Language Science Press
C 2020.
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| Collection: | Studies in diversity linguistics
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| Accès en ligne: | https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/213 Accès Université d'Orléans |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2020-04-30 Titre provenant de l'écran-titre Language Science Press (hors Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Résumé: | Constructions with multiple verbal elements have posed a long-standing challenge to linguistic analysis. Most studies of verb serialisation have been confined to single languages rather than looking at crosslinguistic patterns. This book provides the first indepth account into the areal characteristics of multi-verb constructions (MVCs) in Eastern Indonesia. By collating published data and corpus data from 32 Austronesian and Papuan languages, it traces commonalities as well as differences in MVC use across the area. To this end, a sample of 2146 MVCs is analysed both from a grammatical and a semantic perspective. One of the main hypotheses is that the crucial driving force behind multi-verb construals is semantic interaction between the verbs, leading to four principal techniques of event formation: merging, staging, modification, and free juxtaposition. Combining semantic approaches with crosslinguistic data analysis, the book provides a new model of event interaction offering a fresh perspective on multi-verb constructions in Eastern Indonesia and beyond. |
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| Description: | Description d'après la consultation, 2020-04-30 Titre provenant de l'écran-titre Language Science Press (hors Licence nationale) |
| Format: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliographie: | Bibliographie p. 431-444. Index |
| ISBN: | 9783961102167 |
| Accès: | Ressource intégralement en libre accès Conditions de réutilisation soumises à la licence Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (consultée le 16/07/2026) |