Verb Serialization and "verbal-prepositions" in Oceanic Languages
Durie, Mark (1988). "Verb Serialization and "verbal-prepositions" in Oceanic Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 27 (1/2): 1. doi:10.2307/3623147. ISSN 0029-8115.
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Abstract: The paper titled “Verb Serialization and ‘verbal-prepositions’ in Oceanic Languages” explores the syntactic construction known as verb serialization within the Oceanic language family and examines its relationship with verbal-prepositions. The study is built upon a model of change that considers the distinctions in part of speech categories as influenced by discourse patterns. The paper discusses three specific role types: instrumental, benefactive, and directional (source/goal), focusing on data collected from written sources.
Four languages—Jabem, Sakao, Ulithian, and Nakanai—are analyzed as representative examples to describe strategies for expressing extrinsic orientation in motion, including the presence or absence of transitive morphology and the strategies for expressing orientation. Various examples from these languages illustrate verb serialization and its functions.
The paper acknowledges the data’s limitations and suggests that further research could confirm or disprove the proposed model, which remains tentative despite the initial positive results. It also emphasizes the significance of studying marginal, intermediate categories in understanding the coding of semantic roles as oblique or direct arguments.
The context also extends gratitude to collaborators who contributed to the study and discusses orthographic conventions and theoretical underpinnings regarding serial verbs evolving into prepositions in Proto-Oceanic (POC) languages.
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