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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:22:10
From: Joseph Lovestrand [joeylovestrand at gmail.com]
Subject: DATE 	Message Subject ( Help ) 	Msg # 	 Serial verb constructions in Barayin: Typology, description and lexical-functional grammar

 
Institution: University of Oxford 
Program: D.Phil. in Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2018 

Author: Joseph Lovestrand

Dissertation Title: Serial verb constructions in Barayin: Typology, description 
and lexical-functional grammar 

Dissertation URL:  https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:39406562-02d3-46f5-abf3-180d22225925

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Barein (bva)

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic


Dissertation Director(s):
Mary Dalrymple

Dissertation Abstract:

Barayin is an East Chadic language spoken by around 5000 people in the Guera
region of the Republic of Chad. This dissertation examines a particular type
of syntactic construction in the language, serial verb constructions, from the
perspectives of typological (or comparative) syntax, descriptive grammar, and
the formal syntactic theory of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG).
Typologically, serial verb constructions are problematic because they
represent a heterogeneous set of multiverb constructions that have features
that do not fit into traditional syntactic categories like subordination,
conjunction and adjunction. Part A of this dissertation describes these
problematic features in detail, providing a succinct overview of the
literature which can serve as a resource for field linguists describing
similar constructions. Part B of the dissertation gives a detailed description
of the morphology, syntax and semantics of serial verb constructions in
Barayin. These chapters contribute to our knowledge of the world’s languages
by documenting a complex syntactic phenomenon in an area of the world where
most of the languages are significantly understudied. The most common type of
SVC in Barayin involves a deictic motion verb. The motion is normally (but not
always) understood to take place prior to the activity or state predicated by
the main verb. The formal analysis of Barayin SVCs in Lexical-Functional
Grammar in Part C uses recent developments in the theory to show how argument
sharing in SVCs can be represented in a connected s-structure that conforms to
the standard mechanisms of LFG. The approach is compared to two previous
analyses of complex motion predicates in other languages which appeal to a
non-standard formal mechanism to model complex predicates.




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