Serial Verb Constructions In Austronesian And Papuan Languages

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Serial Verb Constructions In Austronesian And Papuan Languages

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Author : Gunter Senft
language : en
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Release Date : 2008

Serial Verb Constructions In Austronesian And Papuan Languages written by Gunter Senft and has been published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Foreign Language Study categories.

"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.

Multi Verb Constructions In Eastern Indonesia

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Author : Volker Unterladstetter
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-01-09

Multi Verb Constructions In Eastern Indonesia written by Volker Unterladstetter and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

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 in-depth account into the areal characteristics of multi-verb constructions (MVCs) in Eastern Indonesia. By collating published data as well as corpus data from 32 Austronesian and Papuan languages, the study traces commonalities as well as differences in MVC use across the area. Analysis takes place on two levels: first, the morpho-syntactic behaviour of MVCs is taken into account. As this plane of analysis arguably does not provide any meaningful insights into why MVCs are construed and used the way they are, a semantic account of MVCs is presented. One of the main hypotheses advanced in this book 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. The study aims at showing that while all four techniques are, to varying degrees, in use in Eastern Indonesian languages, the morpho-syntactic output does not necessarily mirror these underlying differences in event conception. Applying insights from Davidsonian event semantics as well as from predicate decomposition, the book provides a model of event interaction that helps to explain differences in MVC behaviour such as issues in constituent order or operator assignment.

A Journey Through Austronesian And Papuan Linguistic And Cultural Space

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Author : Andrew Pawley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

A Journey Through Austronesian And Papuan Linguistic And Cultural Space written by Andrew Pawley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Language Study categories.

A Grammar Of Abma

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Author : Cynthia Schneider
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

A Grammar Of Abma written by Cynthia Schneider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Foreign Language Study categories.

A Dictionary Of Kalam With Ethnographic Notes

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Author : Andrew Pawley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

A Dictionary Of Kalam With Ethnographic Notes written by Andrew Pawley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with English language categories.

The Austronesian Languages

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Author : R. A. Blust
language : en
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Release Date : 2009

The Austronesian Languages written by R. A. Blust and has been published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Foreign Language Study categories.

Endangered Austronesian And Australian Aboriginal Languages

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Author : Gunter Senft
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

Endangered Austronesian And Australian Aboriginal Languages written by Gunter Senft and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Aboriginal Australians categories.

The anthology focuses mainly on endangered Oceanic languages, with articles on Vanuatu by Darrell Tryon and the Marquesas by Gabriele Cablitz, on situations of loss and gain by Ingjerd Hom︠ and on the Kilivila language of the Trobriands by the editor. Nick Thieberger, Peter Wittenburg and Paul Trilsbeek, and David Blundell and colleagues write about aspects of linguistic archiving. Under the rubric of revitalization, Margaret Florey and Michael Ewing write about Maluku, Jakelin Troy and Michael Walsh about Australian Aboriginal languages in southeastern Australia, whilst three articles, by Sophie Nock, Diane Johnson and Winifred Crombie concern the revitalization of Maori.

A Grammar Of Abui

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Author : František Kratochvíl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

A Grammar Of Abui written by František Kratochvíl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Abui language categories.

This work contains the first comprehensive description of Abui, a language of the Trans New Guinea family spoken approximately by 16,000 speakers in the central part of the Alor Island in Eastern Indonesia. The description focuses on the northern dialect of Abui as spoken in the village Takalelang. This study is based on primary data collected by the author on Alor. With Pantar island, Alor Island is the western-most area where Papuan languages are spoken. Abui syntax is characterized by rigid head-final word order. The language presents a number of typologically interesting features such as semantic alignment. Characteristic for Abui is the extensive use of generic verbs. Generic verbs appear as parts of complex verbs or in serial verb constructions. This grammar covers the phonology, morphology and basic syntax of Abui. The appendix contains several Abui texts and word lists. Not being written against any particular theoretical background, this book is of interest to scholars of both Papuan and Austronesian languages, as well as linguistic typology.

Kalam Serial Verb Constructions

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Author : Jonathan Lane
language : en
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Release Date : 2007

Kalam Serial Verb Constructions written by Jonathan Lane and has been published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Language Study categories.

"Speakers of Kalam, a Papua New Guinean language, use serial verb constructions extensively. In Kalam, these constructions take the form of one or more bare verb stems followed by an inflected verb. Serial verb constructions in Kalam, as with other serialising languages, resemble single clauses in some ways and sequences of clauses in others. It is at the "single-clause" end that Kalam serial verb constructions are most similar to their equivalents elsewhere. For instance, Kalam speakers combine stems to express new words - useful in Kalam, which has only around 100 verb stems. The stems meaning "give", "get" and "stay" often take on grammatical functions within the constructions, as do similar verbs in other serialising languages"--Publisher.

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Language written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Comparative linguistics categories.