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Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages.
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"...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2004.
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| Colección: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
29. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Complex nuclei in Oceanic languages: Contribution to an areal typology
- What do we really know about serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages?
- Core-layer junctures in Saliba
- Serial and complex verb constructions in Teop
- Chains of freedom: Constraints and creativity in the macro-verb strategies of Mwotlap
- Serial and compound verbs in AnejomÌ?
- Complex verbs and dependency strategies in Nîlîmwa (New Caledonia)
- Complex predicate constructions in East Uvean (Wallis)
- Serial verbs and complex constructions in PileniComplex predicates in Tahitian: A particular case of qualitative modification
- Complex predicates and Juxtapositional Constructions in Samoan
- The grammaticization of directional verbs in Oceanic languages
- The evolution of the verb �take� in New Caledonian languages
- Verbal compounds and lexical prefixes in the languages of New Caledonia
- References
- Index