Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
300
Language
English
Published
Feb 6, 2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10
0198241356
ISBN-13
9780198241355
Description
This book describes the diversity of serial verb constructions within Oceanic languages. Serial verb constructions are sequences of verbs placed one after another to express meanings which in other languages are typically expressed by means of single verbs. It has long been established that West African, Southeast Asian and Papuan languages are serializing languages, but the construction has only comparatively recently been recognized in Oceanic languages, which belong to a very large sub-group of the Austronesian family.