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Author:   Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (The Cairns Institute, James Cook University) ,  R.M.W. Dixon (The Cairns Institute, James Cook University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.599kg
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9780199233427

ISBN 10:   019923342
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   02 August 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Serial Verb Constructions in Typological Perspective 2: Stephen Matthews: On Serial Verb Constructions in Cantonese 3: Birgit Hellwig: Serial Verb Constructions in Goemai 4: Christa Kilian-Hatz: Serial Verb Constructions in Khwe (Central-Khoisan) 5: Felix K. Ameka: Ewe Serial Verb Constructions in their Grammatical Context 6: David B. Solnit: Verb Serialization in Eastern Kayah Li 7: A.V.N. Diller: Thai Serial Verbs: Cohesion and Culture 8: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Serial Verb Constructions in Tariana 9: Andrew Ingram: Serial Verb Constructions in Dumo 10: Alexandre Francois: Serial Verb Constructions in Mwotlap 11: John Hajek: Serial Verbs in Tetun Dili 12: Frantisek Lichtenberk: Serial Verb Constructions in Toqabaqita 13: Roberto Zavala: Serial Verbs in Olutec (Mixean) 14: Willem J. de Reuse: Serial Verbs in Lakota (Siouan) 15: Azeb Amha and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Verbal Compounding in Wolaitta 16: R. M. W. Dixon: Serial Verb Constructions: Conspectus and Coda Index of Authors Index of Subjects Index of Languages, Language Families, and Areas

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...the book is a feast for thought. Anyone with an interest in SVCs and related types of complex predicate must read it... N.J.Enfield, Language

...the book is a feast for thought. Anyone with an interest in SVCs and related types of complex predicate must read it... * N.J.Enfield, Language *

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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Associate Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990). She is a major authority on typological and areal features of South American languages, particularly of the Arawak family: Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker, who has since died), Warekena (1998), and Tariana (2003). Her monographs include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002) and Evidentiality (2004), all published by OUP. She is currently working on a reference grammar of Manambu, from the Sepik area of New Guinea. R.M.W. Dixon is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (2004) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (2005). His works on typological theory include Where have All the Adjectives Gone? and Other Essays (1982) and Ergativity (1994). His essay The Rise and Fall of Languages (1997) expounded a punctuated equilibrium model for language development which is the basis for his detailed case study Australian Languages: their Nature and Development (2002). He is currently working on an extensive study of the basic linguistic theory.

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