Serial verb constructions in Mwotlap
François Alexandre. 2005. .
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Subject
Mwotlap, langues océaniennes, série verbale, [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics
Domains
Linguistique, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines
Description
Mwotlap is an Austronesian language of the Oceanic branch, spoken by about 1800 speakers on Motalava, a small island of the Banks group, north of Vanuatu (François 2001, 2003). Contrary to many languages from the same area-e.g. Paama (Crowley 1987), Ambae (Hyslop 2001), Araki (François 2002)-, Mwotlap has almost no traces of serialisation between verb phrases (of the type I'll PUSH you you'll FALL).Th e only productive case of verb serialisation is of a different pattern, with two or more verbs chained together within a single verb phrase (of the type I'll PUSH FALL you)...
Creators
François, Alexandre
Contributors
Langues et civilisations à tradition orale (LACITO) ; Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), R.M.W. Dixon & Alexandra Aikhenvald (eds)
Sources
Serial Verb Constructions: A cross-linguistic typology, https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00135834, R.M.W. Dixon & Alexandra Aikhenvald (eds). Serial Verb Constructions: A cross-linguistic typology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.223-238, 2005, Explorations in Linguistic Typology
