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Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages: Studies in the Dynamics of Binding and Boundness

Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages: Studies in the Dynamics of Binding and Boundness

Bril, Isabelle
Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise

Hardcover

Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [Ealt], Book 29

Miscellaneous LanguagesGrammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110181886
ISBN13: 9783110181883
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jul 26 2004
Pages: 409
Weight: 1.66
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 towards 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, compounding or grammaticalization.

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