Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages: Studies in the Dynamics of Binding and Boundness

ISBN-13: 9783110181883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 409 str.

I. Bril; F. Ozanne-Rivierre; Isabelle Bril

Opis

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.

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List of Contributors
Introduction
Complex nuclei in Oceanic languages: contribution to an areal typology Isabelle Bril · What do we really know about serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages? Gunter Senft · Core-layer junctures in Saliba (Saliba Island, Milne Bay province of Papua New Guinea) Anna Margetts · Serial and Complex Verb Constructions in Teop (North Bougainville) Jessika Reinig · Chains of freedom: Constraints and creativity in the macro-verb strategies of Mwotlap (Vanuatu) Alexandre François · Serial and compound verbs in Anejoü (Vanuatu) John Lynch · Complex verb constructions and dependency-marking strategies in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) Isabelle Bril · Complex predicate constructions in East Uvean (Wallis) Claire Moyse-Faurie · Serial verbs and complex constructions in Pileni (Solomon Islands): Åshild Næss · Complex predicates in Tahitian: a particular case of qualitative modification Mirose Paia and Jacques Vernaudon · Complex predicates and Juxtapositional Constructions in Samoan Ulrike Mosel · The grammaticization of directional verbs in Oceanic languages Malcolm Ross ·The evolution of the verb 'take' in New Caledonian languages Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre · Verbal compounds and lexical prefixes in the languages of New Caledonia Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre and Jean-Claude Rivierre
References
Index

O autorze

Isabelle Bril and Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre are Researchers at the LACITO-CNRS in Villejuif, France.