
Serial Verbs
Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches
Claire Lefebvre(Editor)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 9. August 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-90-272-2324-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2324-1 (9789027223241)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Misumalpan Verb Sequencing Constuctions (by Hale, Kenneth L.); 3. Take Serial Verb Constructions in Fon (by Lefebvre, Claire); 4. On the Relation of Serialization to Verb Extensions (by Baker, Mark C.); 5. On Deriving Serial Verb Constructions (by Li, Yafei); 6. Some Substantive Issues Concerning Verb Serialization: Grammatical vs. Cognitive Packaging (by Givon, T.); 7. Some Issues in Verb Serialization (by Larson, Richard K.)