Verb-Verb Complexes in Asian Languages Taro Kageyama

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• ISBN 10: 0191077437
• ISBN 13: 9780191077432
• Author: Taro Kageyama

This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Many Asian languages share, to a greater or lesser extent, a unique class of compound verbs consisting of a main verb and a quasi-auxiliary verb known as a ‘vector’ or ‘explicator’. These quasi-auxiliary verbs exhibit unique grammatical behaviour that suggests that they have an intermediate status between full lexical verbs and wholly reduced auxiliaries. They are also semantically unique, in that when they are combined with main verbs, they can convey a rich variety of functional meanings beyond the traditional notions of tense, aspect, and modality, such as manner and intensity of action, benefaction for speaker or hearer, and polite or derogatory styles in speech. In this book, leading specialists in a range of Asian languages offer an in-depth analysis of the long-standing questions relating to the diachrony and geographical distribution of verb-verb complexes. The findings have implications for the general understanding of the grammaticalization of verb categories, complex predicate formation, aktionsart and event semantics, the morphology-syntax-semantics interface, areal linguistics, and typology.

Table contents:

1: Introduction

2: Between lexical verbs and auxiliaries: The architecture of Japanese verb-verb complexes

3: Verb verb complex predicates in Old and Middle Japanese

4: Grammaticalization and constructionalization in Japanese lexical compound verbs

5: Syntactic verb-verb compounds in Japanese

6: The semantic differentiation of verb-te verb complexes and verb-verb compounds in Japanese

7: Verb-verb complexes in Irabu Ryukyuan

8: Korean verb-verb sequences

9: Classification of complex verbs and the evolution of the compound verb in Marathi

10: Development of verb-verb complexes in Indo-Aryan

11: The Hindi-Urdu compound verb and its covert semantics: Births, earthquakes, meteors, and other a

12: The matrix of verb-verb sequences in Tamil

13: Verb + verb sequences in Dravidian

14: Semantically related verb verb combinations in Tibetan and Ladakhi: 1300 years of stable transit

15: Verb–verb complexes in Turkic languages: Interaction of lexical and delexicalized verbs

16: Verb-verb complexes in Central and Eastern Turkic languages

17: Turkish and Uyghur verb-verb complexes in contrast

18: Verb-verb complexes in Avar

19: Verbal complexes in Thai

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