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Serial verbs in oceanic : a descriptive typology / Terry Crowley.
LIBRA PL6173 .C76 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowley, Terry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oceanic languages--Verb.
- Oceanic languages.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Languages in contact--Oceania.
- Languages in contact.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.
- Oceania.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 281 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- This book describes the diversity of serial verb constructions within Oceanic languages. Serial verb constructions are sequences of verbs placed one after another to express meanings which in other languages are typically expressed by means of single verbs. It has long been established that West African, Southeast Asian and Papuan languages are serializing languages, but the construction has only comparatively recently been recognized in Oceanic languages, which belong to a very large sub-group of the Austronesian family.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [268]-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198241356
- OCLC:
- 50252074
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