Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages: Studies in the Dynamics of Binding and Boundness

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2004

Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages

Studies in the Dynamics of Binding and Boundness

Edited by: Isabelle Bril and Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre

Volume 29 in the series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913286

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About this book

Serial verbs and complex predicates have a long history of research, yet there is comparatively little documentation on Oceanic languages. This volume presents new data for further typological studies.

While previous research on serial verbs in Oceanic languages was mostly devoted to "core" serial constructions (with non-contiguous sV(o)sV(o) nuclei), this volume contributes a more detailed investigation of the "nuclear" type of complex predicates involving contiguous sVV(o) nuclei. Complex predicates of the form VV may correspond to two different syntactic structures, either co-ranking or hierarchized (head-modifier). Though the VV pattern does evidence a tendency towards structural compression, often entailing the fusion of the argument structures of two or more nuclei, yet it cannot be reduced to cases of co-lexicalization, compounding or grammaticalization.

The data also show the "nuclear" type to be compatible with all types of basic word orders (VSO, VOS, SVO, SOV), with no evidence that this results from any word order change. This challenges the claim that "nuclear" serialization correlates with verb-final order, and "core" serialization with verb-medial order.

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Isabelle Bril and Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre are Researchers at the LACITO-CNRS in Villejuif, France.

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Complex nuclei in Oceanic languages: Contribution to an areal typology Isabelle Bril Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
What do we really know about serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages? Gunter Senft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Core-layer junctures in Saliba Anna Margetts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Serial and complex verb constructions in Teop Jessika Reinig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chains of freedom: Constraints and creativity in the macro-verb strategies of Mwotlap Alexandre François Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Serial and compound verbs in Anejom̃ John Lynch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Complex verbs and dependency strategies in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) Isabelle Bril Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Complex predicate constructions in East Uvean (Wallis) Claire Moyse-Faurie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Serial verbs and complex constructions in Pileni Åshild Næss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Complex predicates in Tahitian: A particular case of qualitative modification Mirose Paia and Jacques Vernaudon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Complex predicates and Juxtapositional Constructions in Samoan Ulrike Mosel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
The grammaticization of directional verbs in Oceanic languages Malcolm Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
The evolution of the verb ‘take’ in New Caledonian languages Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Verbal compounds and lexical prefixes in the languages of New Caledonia Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre and Jean-Claude Rivierre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Specialists in Oceanic (and more generally Austronesian) Languages, Linguists working on serial verbs and other kinds of complex predicates. General Linguists and adjacent domains (Philosophy and Psychology)
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 398
Keywords: Wortstellung; Sprachtypologie; Austronesier; Sprache

eBook

Published: April 17, 2012
ISBN: 9783110913286

Hardcover

Published: July 26, 2004
ISBN: 9783110181883