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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| description | 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 identification of Papuan Malay verb sequences as monoclausal serial verb constructions is often less than straightforward. This is due to the structure of Papuan Malay which is characterized by little productive morphology, no inflectional morphology, and the pervasive use of syntactic argument elision. In consequence, Papuan Malay multiverb constructions often have an indeterminate status; they could be interpreted as monoclausal serial verb constructions or as multiclausal chaining constructions with elided subject arguments. It is suggested here that the interpretation of such indeterminate verb sequences needs to be pragmatically inferred. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-00bbdf8b73a749ffbe13baa98acef8dc2023-02-02T00:06:19ZengUniversity of Hawaii PressJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society1836-68212023-02-0116136Serial Verb Constructions in Papuan Malay: Forms, Functions and IndeterminacyAngela KlugeThis 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 identification of Papuan Malay verb sequences as monoclausal serial verb constructions is often less than straightforward. This is due to the structure of Papuan Malay which is characterized by little productive morphology, no inflectional morphology, and the pervasive use of syntactic argument elision. In consequence, Papuan Malay multiverb constructions often have an indeterminate status; they could be interpreted as monoclausal serial verb constructions or as multiclausal chaining constructions with elided subject arguments. It is suggested here that the interpretation of such indeterminate verb sequences needs to be pragmatically inferred.https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/collections/1ce13b58-dfa6-4f85-a69a-53b186dd5d22serial verbsclause chainingindeterminate verb sequences |
| spellingShingle | Angela Kluge Serial Verb Constructions in Papuan Malay: Forms, Functions and Indeterminacy Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society serial verbs clause chaining indeterminate verb sequences |
| title | Serial Verb Constructions in Papuan Malay: Forms, Functions and Indeterminacy |
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| title_short | Serial Verb Constructions in Papuan Malay: Forms, Functions and Indeterminacy |
| title_sort | serial verb constructions in papuan malay forms functions and indeterminacy |
| topic | serial verbs clause chaining indeterminate verb sequences |
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