Serial verbs in White Hmong /

Serial verbs in White Hmong / / by Nerida Jarkey.

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In Serial Verbs in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey investigates verb serialization, a highly productive grammatical strategy in this dynamic Southeast Asian language in which multiple verbs are simply concatenated within a single clause to depict a single event. The investigation identifies four major typ...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, Volume 12
VerfasserIn:
Jarkey, Nerida,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; Volume 12.
Physical Description:1 online resource (322 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Introduction to White Hmong Language
  • 2 Introduction to Serial Verb Constructions
  • 3 Productive Serial Verb Constructions in White Hmong
  • 4 Valency-Increasing SVCs and Grammaticalization
  • 5 Superficially Similar Constructions
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Sources for White Hmong Examples
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages and Language Families
  • Index of Subjects.

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