#lcc10 Margaret Ransdell-Green - More Than Their Parts: Linking Actions and Creating New Senses Through Serial Verb Constructions

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Serial verb constructions (SVCs) are typically grammatical constructions in which two or more verbs are combined within a single clause.

Often, SVCs are conceptualized as a single “integrated situation” (Aikhenvald 2006). They can create a composite meaning that is more than the mere combination of the semantic values of two (or more) verbs. In this presentation, I offer a broad typological overview of SVCs, including how they can be lexicalized and incorporated into conlangs to create a semantically rich lexical base without the creation of further root words. I also explore some methods of grammaticalization of SVCs (Hwang 2000) in developing a daughter language as derived from a proto-language.

References

Aikhenvald, Alexandra. 2006. Serial verbs constructions in a typological perspective. In: Aikhenvald, A.Y, and Dixon, R.M.W., (eds.) Serial Verb Constructions: a cross-linguistic typology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. 1-68. ISBN 9780191535406, OCLC 138637975. Available at LCS Lending Library, WorldCat, & Google Books.
Haspelmath, Martin. 2016. The serial verb construction: Comparative concept and cross-linguistics generalizations. Language and Linguistics, 17(3). 291-319. https://zenodo.org/record/225842
Hwang, Jya-Lin. 2000. On Grammaticalization in Serial Verb Constructions in Chinese. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. PhD Dissertation. OCLC 58797811. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O7rqGI1CvKJ4SSH3E9r7Sy_xg_BTkqSd/view
Senft, Gunter. 2008. Serial Verb Constructions in Austronesian and Papuan Languages. Pacific Linguistics, Research School Of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/146747/1/594_Senft.pdf

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