Multi-verb Constructions

A View from the Americas

Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Cairns Institute, James Cook University, and Pieter C. Muysken, Radboud University Nijmegen, with the assistance of Joshua Birchall

One of the most complex topics in the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas, and indeed in the study of any language set, is the complex behaviour of multi-verb constructions. In many languages, several verbs can co-occur in a sentence, forming a single predicate. This book contains a first survey of such constructions in languages of North, Middle, and South America. Though it is not a systematic typological survey, the combined insights from the various chapters give a very rich perspective on this phenomenon, involving a host of typologically diverse constructions, including serial verb constructions, auxiliaries, co-verbs, phasal verbs, incorporated verbs, etc. Aikhenvald's long introduction puts the chapters into a single perspective.

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Editor:

Alexandra Aikhenvald

Pieter Muysken

Category:

Language and Linguistics - Other Languages

BIC2:

linguistics, Language: reference & general

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Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

ISSN:

1876-5580

ISBN13:

9789004194526

Publication Year:

2010

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Hardback

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Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xx, 314 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

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Biographical note

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Ph.D. (1984) in Linguistics, Academy of Science of the USSR, Doctor of Letters (2006), La Trobe University, Australia, is Professor and Research Leader (People and societies of the tropics) at Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has published extensively on Amazonian languages, languages of New Guinea , linguistic typology, and language contact. Her major publications include Evidentiality (2004),and Imperatives and Commands (2010) (OUP).

Pieter C. Muysken, Ph.D. (1977) in Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, is Professor of Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published widely in the field of Andean languages, language contact, creoles and general linguistics, and is the author of Bilingual Speech: A Typology of Code-mixing (2000) and Functional Categories (2008).

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All those interested in language typology, American indigenous languages, historical and comparative linguistics, theoretical syntax and morphology.

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ISBN13:

9789004173620

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Kaoru Kiyosawa and Donna B. Gerdts, Simon Fraser University

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