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Verb serialization in Ede from a diachronic perspective

  • Tam Nguyen
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Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation
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Abstract

Grammaticalization is a phenomenon (Bisang 1996) in which certain independent lexical verbs, become grammatical forms. This process happens in many languages from different families: Tibeto-Burman languages (DeLancey 1991, cf. also Hyslop this volume), languages in mainland Southeast Asia (Bisang 1996; Lord 1993; Thepkanjana 1986), and other language families around the world. DeLancey (2004) proposed that the process of grammaticalization involved diachronic changes of certain lexical morphemes becoming grammatical ones through three stages: serialization, auxiliarization and morphologization. Our particular interest in this chapter will be the process of grammaticalization through verb serialization in Ede (a Chamic language of Vietnam), from a shift of an independent lexical verb to a verb in a sequence, and further to a grammaticalized auxiliary. Verb serialization in Ede provides a demonstration of DeLancey’s (2004) hypothesis regarding the process of grammaticalization occurring even though the stage of “morphologization” may not occur in Ede as it is an isolating language.

Abstract

Grammaticalization is a phenomenon (Bisang 1996) in which certain independent lexical verbs, become grammatical forms. This process happens in many languages from different families: Tibeto-Burman languages (DeLancey 1991, cf. also Hyslop this volume), languages in mainland Southeast Asia (Bisang 1996; Lord 1993; Thepkanjana 1986), and other language families around the world. DeLancey (2004) proposed that the process of grammaticalization involved diachronic changes of certain lexical morphemes becoming grammatical ones through three stages: serialization, auxiliarization and morphologization. Our particular interest in this chapter will be the process of grammaticalization through verb serialization in Ede (a Chamic language of Vietnam), from a shift of an independent lexical verb to a verb in a sequence, and further to a grammaticalized auxiliary. Verb serialization in Ede provides a demonstration of DeLancey’s (2004) hypothesis regarding the process of grammaticalization occurring even though the stage of “morphologization” may not occur in Ede as it is an isolating language.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. Part I. Typological studies
  5. Non-aprioristic typology as a discovery tool 3
  6. Chorophorics, or the difference between place as an entity and place as a position in space 27
  7. On the diachrony of the ‘Ethical Dative’ 43
  8. Part II. Contributions to historical linguistics
  9. Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman context 69
  10. The dinguist’s dilemma 83
  11. Part III. TAME and case alignment
  12. Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo 107
  13. Agent case marking in Sahaptian 131
  14. Part IV. Multi-clause constructions
  15. The Kurtöp - si construction 155
  16. Verb serialization in Ede from a diachronic perspective 179
  17. Tense-aspect morphology from nominalizers in Newar 195
  18. Part V. Functional motivation and extension
  19. Predicting reference form 223
  20. Causation as “functional sink” in Northern Paiute 237
  21. The challenge of Maa ‘Away’ 259
  22. Name index 283
  23. Language index 287
  24. Subject index 291
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.103.09ngu

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. Part I. Typological studies
  5. Non-aprioristic typology as a discovery tool 3
  6. Chorophorics, or the difference between place as an entity and place as a position in space 27
  7. On the diachrony of the ‘Ethical Dative’ 43
  8. Part II. Contributions to historical linguistics
  9. Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman context 69
  10. The dinguist’s dilemma 83
  11. Part III. TAME and case alignment
  12. Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo 107
  13. Agent case marking in Sahaptian 131
  14. Part IV. Multi-clause constructions
  15. The Kurtöp - si construction 155
  16. Verb serialization in Ede from a diachronic perspective 179
  17. Tense-aspect morphology from nominalizers in Newar 195
  18. Part V. Functional motivation and extension
  19. Predicting reference form 223
  20. Causation as “functional sink” in Northern Paiute 237
  21. The challenge of Maa ‘Away’ 259
  22. Name index 283
  23. Language index 287
  24. Subject index 291
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