Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs

dc.contributor.author	Heston, Tyler M.
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-30T17:57:20Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-30T17:57:20Z
dc.date.issued	2021-11-29
dc.description.abstract	This paper presents a new analysis of a class of words previously analyzed as postpositions in the Papuan language Fataluku. Closer examination reveals that these words exhibit verbal characteristics, such as taking verbal morphology and occupying the same grammatical slots as action verbs. Additionally, a number of words may express either events or sematically-related positional relationships, following established pathways of semantic bleaching. I argue that many verbs have acquired adposition-like meanings through their use in serial verb constructions, a common areal feature, and that their synchronic behavior is more consistent with a verbal analysis than an adpositional one.
dc.format.extent	13 pages
dc.identifier.issn	1836-6821
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52488
dc.subject	Syntactic categories
dc.subject	Grammaticalization
dc.subject	SVCs
dc.subject	Serial verbs
dc.subject	Adpositions
dc.subject	Papuan languages
dc.subject	Timor-Alor-Pantar
dc.subject	East Timor
dc.subject	Timor Leste
dc.subject	East Nusantara
dc.subject.languagecode	ddg
dc.title	Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs
dc.type	Article
dc.type.dcmi	Text
prism.endingpage	55
prism.number	2
prism.publicationname	Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage	43
prism.volume	14

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