Serial verbs in White Hmong /

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"Investigates verb serialization, a highly productive grammatical strategy in this dynamic Southeast Asian language in which multiple verbs are simply concatenated within a single clause to depict a single event. The investigation identifies four major types of serial verb construction (SVC) in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jarkey, Nerida (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, [2015]
Colección:Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; volume 12.
Temas:
White Hmong dialect > Verb phrase.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Southeast Asian Languages.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Introduction to White Hmong Language
  • 1.1 About the Language Family and the Locations of its Speakers
  • 1.2 Phonology and Orthography
  • 1.2.1 The Consonant Phonemes and their Allophones
  • 1.2.2 The Vowel Phonemes and their Allophones
  • 1.2.3 Tones
  • 1.2.4 Syllable Structure
  • 1.3 Syllables, Morphemes and Words
  • 1.3.1 Sub-Syllabic Morphotonemes
  • 1.3.2 Polysyllabic Morphemes
  • 1.3.3 Multi-Morphemic Words
  • 1.4 The Noun Phrase.
  • 1.4.1 The Basic Structure of the Noun Phrase
  • 1.4.2 Classifiers and Measures
  • 1.5 The Locative Phrase and Spatial Deictics
  • 1.6 Simple Clause Types
  • 1.6.1 Existential Clauses
  • 1.6.2 Nominal Subject Complement Clauses
  • 1.6.3 Intransitive Clauses
  • 1.6.4 Reciprocal Clauses
  • 1.6.5 Transitive Clauses
  • 1.6.6 Ditransitive Clauses
  • 1.7 Operations on the Simple Clause: Mood, Modality, and Aspect
  • 1.7.1 Imperative
  • 1.7.2 Interrogative and Uncertainty with puas
  • 1.7.3 Negative with tsis and txhob
  • 1.7.4 Certainty with twb
  • 1.7.5 Future, Likelihood, and Intention with yuav.
  • 1.7.6 Likelihood and Obligation with yuav-tsum and yuav-tau
  • 1.7.7 Deontic Modality with a Complementation Strategy
  • 1.7.8 Deontic Modality with Postverbal tau
  • 1.7.9 Achievement with Preverbal tau
  • 1.7.10 Imperfective Aspect
  • 1.7.11 The Perfect with lawm
  • 1.8 Conclusion to Chapter One
  • Chapter 2 Introduction to Serial Verb Constructions
  • 2.1 The Term 'Serial Verb Construction'
  • 2.1.1 The Term 'SVC' Used for Distinct Actions
  • 2.1.2 The Term 'SVC' Used for a Single Action/Event
  • 2.2 The Notion of a Single Event
  • 2.2.1 Construal as a Single Event.
  • 2.2.2 Packaging as Single Event
  • 2.3 The Notion of Joint Predication
  • 2.4 Syntactic Framework for the Analysis of SVC Types in White Hmong
  • 2.4.1 Key Notions for the Analysis
  • 2.4.2 The Syntactic Analysis of White Hmong SVCs Proposed
  • 2.5 Conclusion to Chapter Two
  • Chapter 3 Productive Serial Verb Constructions in White Hmong
  • 3.1 Cotemporal Serial Verb Constructions
  • 3.1.1 Cotemporal Motion Serial Verb Constructions
  • 3.1.2 Cotemporal SVCs Involving Actions
  • 3.1.3 Nexus and Level of Juncture in Cotemporal SVCs
  • 3.2 Cause-Effect Serial Verb Constructions.
  • 3.2.1 Constraints on the Verbs Appearing in Cause-Effect SVCs
  • 3.2.2 The Type of Causation Described by Cause-Effect SVCs in White Hmong
  • 3.2.3 Nexus and Level of Juncture in Cause-Effect SVCs
  • 3.2.4 Cause-Effect SVCs: One Subject or Two?
  • 3.3 Attainment Serial Verb Constructions
  • 3.3.1 Introduction
  • 3.3.2 Types of Predicate in Attainment SVCs
  • 3.3.3 Components Common to All Attainment SVCs
  • 3.3.4 Comparison of Attainment SVCs with 'Resultative Verb Compounds' in Mandarin
  • 3.3.5 Rules for Deriving Attainment SVCs: Syntactic or Lexical?

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