Serial Verb Constructions in Papuan Malay: Forms, Functions and Indeterminacy

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dc.contributor.authorKluge, Angela
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-01T23:09:00Z
dc.date.available2023-02-01T23:09:00Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.format.extent36 pages
dc.identifier.issn1836-6821
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10524/52507
dc.subjectserial verbs, clause chaining, indeterminacy, indeterminate verb sequences
dc.subject.languagecodepmy
dc.titleSerial Verb Constructions in Papuan Malay: Forms, Functions and Indeterminacy
dc.typeResearch article
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prism.endingpage36
prism.number1
prism.publicationnameJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage1
prism.volume16

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