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

By Isabelle Bril , Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2004
ISBN
3110181886, 9783110181883
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10490861 bytes)
Series
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 29
Pages
412\411
Time added
2016-04-02 19:30:09
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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.

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