Serial Verbs: Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches (Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, Band 8) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9027223246 ISBN 13: 9789027223241

Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

The papers in this volume offer several analyses of verb serialization written within various theoretical frameworks: grammatical, comparative and cognitive/functional. They cover a wide range of language families. All authors address two basic questions about verb serialization: First, what is the structure and thematic constitution of the construction? The answers to this question cover the spectrum of the options that are available in current grammatical theory. Second, what aspect of the grammar differentiates between languages which have serial constructions and those which do not? The specific proposals made by the authors are discussed by R. Larson in the concluding paper. Larson opens new perspectives for research on verb serialization by posing the following question: what analogues for verb serialization can be found in the more familiar grammatical apparatus of English? It is suggested that verb serialization finds a clear parallel in the secondary predicate structures of English.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9027223246
• ISBN 13: 9789027223241
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
• Herausgeber: Lefebvre Claire
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