Serial Verbs
Author:   Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198791263


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   08 November 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780198791263


ISBN 10:   0198791267
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   08 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Serial verbs: The framework 2: Recognizing a serial verb 3: Composition and meanings of serial verbs 4: Formal properties of serial verbs 5: The limits of serial verbs 6: The many facets of serial verbs 7: What are serial verbs good for? 8: The rise and fall of serial verbs 9: The essence of serial verbs: What can we conclude? Fieldworker's guide to serial verb constructions References Index

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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (CUP, 2003) and The Manambu language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (OUP, 2008; paperback 2010), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American and Papuan languages and typological issues including evidentials, classifiers, and serial verbs. Her other recent publications with OUP include Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012; paperback 2015), The Art of Grammar (2014), How Gender Shapes the World (2016), and, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (2017).

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