Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages
( Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT )
Publication series ：Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT
Publisher： De Gruyter Mouton
Publication year： 2004
E-ISBN: 9783110913286
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9783110181883
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Keyword： 语言学
Language： ENG
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Description
This volume provides new data for typological studies and contributes a detailed investigation of the "nuclear" type of complex predicates in Oceanic languages. This VV pattern may correspond to two different syntactic structures, either co-ranking or hierarchized (head-modifier). It appears to be compatible with all types of basic word orders, thus contradicting the generalizations which correlate "nuclear" serialization with verb-final order. Part 1 contains two synthetic articles on the research of serial verbs in Austronesian languages, as well as detailed case studies of complex predicates in various Oceanic languages. Part 2 concentrates on some processes leading to the grammaticalization of serialized verbs into clitics or adpositions.