Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages
Th is paper focuses on the syntax of (argument introducing/valency increasing) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages, providing empirical arguments for the model of grammatical relations advanced in a series of recent works by Manzini and Savoia (2011a, 2011b), Manzini and Franco (2016), Franco an...
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| description | Th is paper focuses on the syntax of (argument introducing/valency increasing) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages, providing empirical arguments for the model of grammatical relations advanced in a series of recent works by Manzini and Savoia (2011a, 2011b), Manzini and Franco (2016), Franco and Manzini (2017a, 2017b), Manzini et al. (to appear a, b). Th ese authors lay out an analysis of the syntax and interpretation of dative to, instrumental with and Diff erential Object Marking (DOM) relators, based on the assumption that these elements are predicates endowed with an elementary interpretive content interacting with the internal organization of the event. We assume that these oblique relators, expressing a primitive elementary part-whole/ possession relation, may be instantiated also by serial (light) verbs in the grammar of natural languages. We provide a formal approach to cross-categorial variation in argument marking, trying to outline a unifi ed morpho-syntactic template, in which so-called ‘cases’ do not confi gure a specialized linguistic lexicon of functional features/categories – on the contrary they help us outline an underlying ontology of natural languages, of which they pick up some of the most elementary relations. Such primitive relations can be expressed by different lexical means (e.g. case, adpositions, light verbs, etc.). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f6489bb3998548c1b617e0adb447f53a2022-12-22T01:56:59ZengFirenze University PressQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali2421-72202020-01-01410.13128/QULSO-2421-7220-23840Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin LanguagesLudovico Franco0CLUNL/FCSH/Universidade Nova de LisboaTh is paper focuses on the syntax of (argument introducing/valency increasing) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages, providing empirical arguments for the model of grammatical relations advanced in a series of recent works by Manzini and Savoia (2011a, 2011b), Manzini and Franco (2016), Franco and Manzini (2017a, 2017b), Manzini et al. (to appear a, b). Th ese authors lay out an analysis of the syntax and interpretation of dative to, instrumental with and Diff erential Object Marking (DOM) relators, based on the assumption that these elements are predicates endowed with an elementary interpretive content interacting with the internal organization of the event. We assume that these oblique relators, expressing a primitive elementary part-whole/ possession relation, may be instantiated also by serial (light) verbs in the grammar of natural languages. We provide a formal approach to cross-categorial variation in argument marking, trying to outline a unifi ed morpho-syntactic template, in which so-called ‘cases’ do not confi gure a specialized linguistic lexicon of functional features/categories – on the contrary they help us outline an underlying ontology of natural languages, of which they pick up some of the most elementary relations. Such primitive relations can be expressed by different lexical means (e.g. case, adpositions, light verbs, etc.).https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/7800dativeDOMinstrumentalPidgin/CreoleSerial verbs |
| spellingShingle | Ludovico Franco Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali dative DOM instrumental Pidgin/Creole Serial verbs |
| title | Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages |
| title_full | Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages |
| title_fullStr | Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages |
| title_short | Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages |
| title_sort | oblique serial verbs in creole pidgin languages |
| topic | dative DOM instrumental Pidgin/Creole Serial verbs |
| url | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/7800 |
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