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I would like to <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">announce the publication of my new book, written for linguists (both professionals and students) and linguistically-minded anthropologists',
<em>Serial verbs</em>, published in October 2018 by Oxford University Press.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri">This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial
verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs in the construction have the same tense, aspect, mood, modality, and evidentiality values, cannot be negated or questioned separately,
and usually share the same subject and object. They are a powerful means of portraying various facets of one event, and can express grammatical meanings such as aspect, direction, and causation, particularly in languages where few other means are available.
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In this volume, Alexandra Aikhenvald seeks to answer unresolved questions such as: What are the parameters of variation in serial verbs? How do serial verbs differ from other, superficially similar multi-verb constructions? How do serial verbs emerge, and what
happens to them over time? What role do they play in the representation of event structure? The book uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations. It will
be of interest to researchers and students from a wide range of fields of linguistics, especially typology, anthropological linguistics, and language contact.</font></span></div>
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This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs in
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<li>Further features of the book (from the same site) - </li></div>
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<li>Provides a systematic investigation of serial verb constructions in the context of other multi-verb combinations</li><li>Examines new data from isolating languages, languages of South and Central America, Oceanic languages, and Papuan languages</li><li>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Explores the origins and evolution of serial verb constructions based on advances in the fields of language contact and comparative-historical linguistics</div>
</li><li>Includes a guide for fieldworkers dealing with serial verb constructions</li></ul>
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, PhD, DLitt, FAHA, FQAAS
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Distinguished Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>James Cook University</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>fax 61-7-4042 1880 http://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/</span></p>
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