Multi-verb Constructions

A View from the Americas

By: Alexandra Aikhenvald (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 December 2010

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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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"Esta obra representa uma importante contribuicao para os estudos das linguas Amerindias. Os diversos textos incluidos trazem uma grande variedade de dados que, juntos com a visao teorica dos autores, nos permitem ter uma ideia mais clara sobre a estrutura de construcoes com serializacao verbal. Este livro publicado pela editora Brill e bem-vindo; ele, sem duvida, passara a ser um elemento de consulta basica para todos aqueles que se dedicam tanto ao estudo das linguas Amerindias quanto aos estudos funcional-tipologicos dessas linguas." Angel Corbera Mori, LIAMES. Linguas Indigenas Americanas, no. 12 (2012).

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