Found inside – Page 3These languages exhibit no true noun cias ses and no concord phenomena. ... of the language {the serial verb construction, the double object construction, ... Found inside – Page 425is a unique form in Igbo. It is derived from Jónyés 'person'; ... question, the last part of the question uses a serial verb construction (cf. 12.11). Found inside – Page 67How Igbo got from SOV serializing to SVO compounding. ... Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions [Typological Studies in Language 26]. Found inside – Page 131In Serial Verb Constructions: A Cross-linguistic Typology, edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon, ... Language and Linguistics 17, 3:291–319. Found inside – Page 117... that have been on serial verb constructions are also works on complex predicates. This is illustrated using the sentences below from Igbo language: 5) ... Found inside – Page 72construction . To summarize the events : In Twi , Ewe , Ga -- and Mandarin Chinese -- evidence suggests that the locative preposition has ... In Yoruba , Igbo , Engenni and Idoma the historical development has proceeded similarly , but the locative verb is no longer present . ... It may well be the case that , if a serial verb language contains any de - verbal prepositions , it will contain a Locative preposition . Found inside – Page 66'Igbo verb compounds and the lexicon', Studies in African Linguistics ... 'The development of object markers in serial verb construction languages', pp. Found inside – Page 385Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Vol. 2: Complex constructions. 235-286. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. “Serial verbs in transition”. Found inside – Page 137Muysken ( 2000 ) illustrates many ' do ' constructions across language pairs ... For example , Eze ( 1998 ) reports on a serial verb construction in Igbo ... Found inside – Page 150Besides Instrument, expressions of Accompaniment and of Source appear as serial verb constructions in Igbo (44b). Source, as already noted, ... Found inside – Page 28language . In section 2 , we saw that this is a neighboring language of Edo that has verb raising , in which verbs always bear an inflectional suffix . Igbo also does not have Edo - like serial verb constructions . Rather , the equivalents of ... Found inside – Page 23Monopredicative reading of serial verb constructions may ... verb is often best translated with a monoverbal clause into a language with no serial verbs . Found inside – Page 549Serial Verb Constructions in Obolo. ... West African Languages in Education Vienna: Afro-Pub, Band 27:144-174. Awoyale, Y. 1987. Perspectives on verb ... Found inside – Page 219Igbo Language and Culture, 175–291, Onitsha: Central Books Ltd. Aikhenvald, A.Y. (2006), 'Serial Verb Constructions in Typological Perspective', ... The book will be essential for courses in cross-linguistic syntax, language typology, and linguistic fieldwork, as well as for basic syntactic description. Found inside – Page 116The serial verb construction: comparative concept and cross-linguistic generalizations. Language and Linguistics 17: 291–319. Hiraiwa, Ken and Adams Bodomo. Found inside – Page 536... force indicating device) = illocution Igbo Kwa language (approx. ... tonal language (with downstep), vowel harmony; serial verb construction, ... This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community. Found inside – Page 225An Investigation Into Serialisation in Sranan and Other Languages Mark Sebba ... STAHLKE, H.F.W. 1974: Serial verbs as adverbs: a reply to Paul Schachter. Found inside – Page 23It was noted above that adjectival verbs requiring no preceding form of be ... is likely to be a loan translation of an African serial verb construction, ... This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. This book proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption. Found inside – Page 150If Igbo , like Bantu , has some affixes dating from the current svo syntax and other affixes dating from the earlier Sov syntax , as ... The others , and those in ( 5 ) , correspond to the second verb component in serial verb constructions , comparable to those currently found in Ijo . ... serializing language expresses the notion ' begin an action ' with the verb ' begin ' in second position in a serial construction . Found inside – Page 178Thus , for instance , McWhorter ( 1992 ) in discussing serial verb constructions in Saramaccan , produces an impressive list of West African languages ( Yoruba , Akan , Ewe , Fon , Gan , Igbo , Nupe , Gwari and Yatye , of which only the Gbe ... Found inside – Page 16... of the type) has been clearly modelled on the serial verb construction. ... It can be found in the West African languages Ewe, Yoruba, Twi and Igbo (cf. Found inside – Page 396Bamgbose , A. 1974. On serial verbs and verbal status . Journal of West African Languages , 9 ( 1 ) , 17-18 . Collins , Chris . 1997. Argument sharing in serial verb constructions . Linguistic Inquiry 28 , 461-497 . Dechaine , Rose - Marie . 1993 . This book surveys multi-verb constructions in multiple languages from the Americas, showing a very rich tapestry of typologically unusual constructions, including serial verbs, auxiliaries, co-verbs, phasal verbs. Found inside – Page 85Journal of Igbo Language and Linguistics 4:37–42. ... A serial verb construction without constructions. Ms, Rutgers University. Baker, Philip & Corne, Chris ... Found inside – Page 150In some languages, serial verbs form one grammatical and phonological word ... for insects' Verbs can only combine to form a serial verb construction if the ... Found inside – Page 113Serial Verb Constructions in Austronesian and Papuan Languages [Pacific Linguistics 594). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Hajek, John. 2006. Serial verbs in ... Found inside – Page 101The only permissible context for bare verbs in Igbo is in serial verb constructions, common in African (and many other) languages but rare and highly ... Found inside – Page 71... constructions show Yoruba to be related to neighboring Kwa languages like Igbo , Itsekiri and Efik . Furthermore , the serial verb constructions will be shown to be far more productive and economical than the HTS constructions , the infinitival ... Found inside – Page 116... in the language . When this fact is recognised , then the analysis of Igbo verb - forms and their inflectional affixes becomes easy ( cf Nwachukwu 1976 and op . cit . ... from what one would find in a serial verb construction . As far as I know it ... Found inside – Page 109In a language where the verb has a rich morphological structure, ... what is called a 'serial verb construction' (SVC), where the predicate includes two (or ... Found inside – Page 162igbo. In. igbo,. as. Déchaine. (1990,. 1993) points out, triadic serial verb constructions do not surface as SVCs, but come out as V–V compounds instead (cf ... Found inside – Page 66GLOW workshop The syntactic and semantic headedness of serial constructions Rose - Marie Déchaine Department of Linguistics , University ... languages and assume that there is a uniform and uniquely identifiable syntactic array corresponding to " serial verb construction " ... Igbo benefactives surface as applicatives ( V - V compounds or V - Affix compounds ) ; double object constructions occur to the ... Found inside – Page 239The Serial Verb Construction Parameter. ... The modal system of the Igbo language Chinedu Uchechukwu LMU Tense, mood, and aspect in Gungbe (Kwa) 2 Found inside – Page 62Serial Verb Constructions Igbo , like most Kwa languages of West Africa , has serial verb constructions , that is a construction with a concatenation of verbs sharing the same subject . Its illustration is given in the following examples . ( 1 ) B Gori ... This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the ... Found insideDiversity in African Languages contains a selection of revised papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Oregon. Found insideNoun Modifiers in Igbo ' , IJAL 35.4 : 315-322 . WESTERMANN , D. and WARD , I. C. 1933. Practical Phonetics for students of African Languages , O.U.P. WILLIAMS , W. R. 1971. ' Serial Verb Construction in Krio ' , SAL Supplement 2 : 47-65 . Found inside – Page 241However , it is also found in Igbo , an SVO language of West Africa . ... reports that Igbo uses a “ normal ” serial verb construction to express instrument ... Found inside – Page 188The first verb is realized by a binding chain between an empty verb ... in (44): (44) The serial verb parameter A verb serializing language is one in which ... Found inside – Page 269Serial Verb Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Subordination or Co-ordination? ... Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 8: 177–207. Found inside – Page 37In the Transeurasian languages and beyond Martine Robbeets, Walter Bisang ... The example from Basaá (19) presents a serial verb construction whose first ... , Chris... found insideNoun Modifiers in Igbo that denies this assumption Page 113Serial Constructions. Language of West Africa 35.4: 315-322: a reply to Paul Schachter Vienna:,... Documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the West African Languages Ewe, Yoruba Twi... - like serial verb Constructions in Mandarin Chinese -- evidence suggests that the locative preposition serial verb construction in igbo language the locative preposition...... 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