31.316, Books: Multi-verb constructions in Eastern Indonesia: Unterladstetter

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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:37:48
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Multi-verb constructions in Eastern Indonesia: Unterladstetter

 


Title: Multi-verb constructions in Eastern Indonesia 
Series Title: Studies in Diversity Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/213 


Author: Volker Unterladstetter

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961102167 Pages: 480 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Austronesian
                      East Papuan 
                      West Papuan 


Written In: English  (eng)

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