Serial Verb Constructions in Papuan Malay: Forms, Functions and Indeterminacy
This paper describes serial verb constructions in Papuan Malay, an eastern Malay language, spoken in coastal West Papua, on the island of New Guinea. Papuan Malay employs serial verb constructions to encode complex events by means of verb sequences, or to express grammatical categories. However, the...
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University of Hawaii Press
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |
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| Online Access: | https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/collections/1ce13b58-dfa6-4f85-a69a-53b186dd5d22 |