Serial Verbs in White Hmong
Title | Serial Verbs in White Hmong PDF eBook |
Author | Nerida Jarkey |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2015-06-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 900429239X |
In Serial Verbs in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey 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 White Hmong and finds that the key function of all these types is to depict a single event in an elaborate and vivid way, a much-favoured method of description in this language. These findings concerning the nature and function of SVCs in White Hmong contribute to broader discussions on the nature of events as both cognitive and cultural constructs.
Serial Verb Constructions in Hmong
Title | Serial Verb Constructions in Hmong PDF eBook |
Author | Jamison Cooper-Leavitt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 59 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Hmong language |
ISBN |
Hmong for Beginners
Title | Hmong for Beginners PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Jaisser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Hmong language |
ISBN |
Serial Verb Constructions
Title | Serial Verb Constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199279152 |
A serial verb construction is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. This oustanding book is the first to study the phenomenon across languages of different typological and genetic profiles. The authors, all experienced linguistic fieldworkers, follow a unified typological approach and avoid formalisms.
Serial Verbs
Title | Serial Verbs PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
Publisher | Oxford Studies in Typology and |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198791267 |
This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate. It uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations.
Serial Verbs in White Hmong
Title | Serial Verbs in White Hmong PDF eBook |
Author | Nerida Jarkey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 836 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | White Hmong dialect |
ISBN |
Serial Verbs
Title | Serial Verbs PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0192508776 |
This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs in the construction have the same tense, aspect, mood, modality, and evidentiality values, cannot be negated or questioned separately, and usually share the same subject and object. They are a powerful means of portraying various facets of one event, and can express grammatical meanings such as aspect, direction, and causation, particularly in languages where few other means are available. In this volume, Alexandra Aikhenvald seeks to answer unresolved questions such as: What are the parameters of variation in serial verbs? How do serial verbs differ from other, superficially similar multi-verb constructions? How do serial verbs emerge, and what happens to them over time? What role do they play in the representation of event structure? The book uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations. It will be of interest to researchers and students from a wide range of fields of linguistics, especially typology, anthropological linguistics, and language contact.