Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs

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. Addition...

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Autor principal:	Tyler M. Heston
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	University of Hawaii Press 2021
Materias:	syntactic categories grammaticalization scvs serial verbs adpositions papuan languages timor-alor-pantar east timor timor leste east nusantara Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9814fe8287854b4bbea37f601012afc92021-11-30T22:09:00ZReanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs1836-6821https://doaj.org/article/9814fe8287854b4bbea37f601012afc92021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://hdl.handle.net/10524/52488https://doaj.org/toc/1836-6821This 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.Tyler M. HestonUniversity of Hawaii Pressarticlesyntactic categoriesgrammaticalizationscvsserial verbsadpositionspapuan languagestimor-alor-pantareast timortimor lesteeast nusantaraLanguages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Vol 14, Iss 2, Pp 44-55 (2021)
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topic	syntactic categories grammaticalization scvs serial verbs adpositions papuan languages timor-alor-pantar east timor timor leste east nusantara Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
spellingShingle	syntactic categories grammaticalization scvs serial verbs adpositions papuan languages timor-alor-pantar east timor timor leste east nusantara Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Tyler M. Heston Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs
description	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.
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Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs

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