33.2193, Books: Serial Verbs: Aikhenvald

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Subject: 33.2193, Books: Serial Verbs: Aikhenvald

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Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 20:51:12
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: Serial Verbs: Aikhenvald

 


Title: Serial Verbs 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/serial-verbs-9780192855770?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Alexandra Y Aikhenvald

Paperback: ISBN:  9780192855770 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 40


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

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.

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=161994




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