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Tue Jul 27 2004

Books: Syntax/Oceanic: Brill, Ozanne-Rivierre (Eds)

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    Message 1: Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages: Brill, Ozanne-Rivierre (Eds)

     Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
    From: julia.ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
    Subject: Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages: Brill, Ozanne-Rivierre (Eds)




    Title: Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages Subtitle: Studies in the Dynamics of Binding and Boundness Series Title: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 29

    Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter http://www.mouton-publishers.com

    Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110181886-1&l=E

    Editor: Isabelle Brill, LACITO-CNRS in Villejuif, France Editor: Francoise Ozanne-Rivierre, LACITO-CNRS in Villejuif, France

    Hardback: ISBN: 3110181886, Pages: xi, 398 pages, Price: Europe EURO 118.00 Comment: approx. US$ 142.00

    Abstract:

    Serial verbs and complex predicates have a long history of research, yet there is comparatively little documentation on Oceanic languages. This volume presents new data for further typological studies.

    While previous research on serial verbs in Oceanic languages was mostly devoted to "core" serial constructions (with non-contiguous sV(o)sV(o) nuclei), this volume contributes a more detailed investigation of the "nuclear" type of complex predicates involving contiguous sVV(o) nuclei. Complex predicates of the form VV may correspond to two different syntactic structures, either co-ranking or hierarchized (head-modifier).

    Though the VV pattern does evidence a tendency to-wards structural compression, often entailing the fusion of the argument structures of two or more nuclei, yet it cannot be reduced to cases of co-lexicalization, com-pounding or grammaticalization.

    The data also show the "nuclear" type to be compatible with all types of basic word orders (VSO, VOS, SVO, SOV), with no evidence that this results from any word order change. This challenges the claim that "nuclear" serialization correlates with verb-final order, and "core" serialization with verb-medial order.

    FROM THE CONTENTS:

    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 FRAN�OIS

    Serial and compound verbs in Anejom (Vanuatu) JOHN LYNCH

    Complex verb constructions and dependency-marking strategies in N�l�mwa (New Caledonia) ISABELLE BRIL

    Complex predicate constructions in East Uvean (Wallis) CLAIRE MOYSE-FAURIE

    Serial verbs and complex constructions in Pileni (Solomon Islands) �SHILD N�SS

    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 FRAN�OISE OZANNE-RIVIERRE

    Verbal compounds and lexical prefixes in the languages of New Caledonia FRAN�OISE OZANNE-RIVIERRE AND JEAN-CLAUDE RIVIERRE



    Lingfield(s): Historical Linguistics Syntax Typology

    Language Family: Oceanic Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)

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