Papers from the Ohio State Mini-Conference on Serial Verbs (Columbus, Ohio, May 26-27, 1990)
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 330 217 FL 019 118 AUTHOR Joseph, Brian D., Ed.; Zwicky, Arnold M., Ed. TITLE When Verbs Collide: Papers from the Ohio State Mini-Conference on Serial Verbs (Columbus, Ohio, May 26-27, 1990). Working Papers in Linguistics No. 39. INSTITUTION Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Dept. cf Linguistics. REPORT NO OSU-WPL-39 PUB DATE DEc 90 NOTE 379p. AVAILABLE FROM The National Technical Information Center, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 5285 Port Royal Rd., Springfield, VA 22151. PUB TYPE Collected Works - Conference Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC16 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Arabic; Chinese; *Creoles; Definitions; English; Grammar; Greek; Gullah; Higher Education; Hmong; Japanese; Korean; *Language Patterns; Language Research; Language Variation; Linguistic Theory; Mandarin Chinese; Marathi; Pidgins; *Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Suffixes; *Syntax; Tamil; Tenses (Grammar); Uncommonly Taught Languages; *Verbs IDENTIFIERS *Hualapai ABSTRACT Papers from the conference on the occurrence of verbal constituents in series in certain languages, particularly pidgins and creoles, include the following: "What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Serial Verbs?" (Arnold M. Zwicky); "Serial Verb Constructions" (Pieter Seuren); 10n the Definition and Distribution of Serial Verb ConstructiLns" (Eric Schiller); "Parataxis in White Hmong" (Elizabeth Riddle); "On Arguing forSerial Verbs (with Special Reference to Modern Greek)" (Brian D. Joseph); "Serialization and Subordination in Gullah: Towarda Definition of Serialization" (Salikoko Mufwene); "Serial Verb Constructionsand Motion Events in Caribbean English Creoles" (Don Winford);"Tense Marking in Serial Structures" (Francis Byrne); "Serial Verb Construction in Marathi" (Rajeshwari Pandharipande); "Tamil Serial Verbs" (Sabita Nagarajan); "Constraints on IntransitiveQuasi-Serial Verb Constructions in Modern Colloquial English" (GeoffieyK. Pullum); 3Serial vs. Consecutive Verbs in Walapai" (JamesE. Redden); "Suffixal Concatenation in the Classical Japanese Predicate: Erstwhile Serial Verbs?" (Charles Quinn); "Multi-VerbConstructions in Korean" (In-Hee Jo); "On Serial Verbs in Mandarin Chinese: VV Compounds and Co-Ve,bial Phrases" (Claire Hsun-huei Chang); "Syntactic Constructions in Serial Verb Expressions in Chinese" (John Xiang-ling Dai); "Serial Verbs in Colloquial Arabic" (Lutfi Hussein); and "Serial Verb Constructions in Categorial Grammar" (Katherine Welker). (MSE) Working Papers in Linguistics No. 39 WHEN VERBS COLLIDE: PAPERS FROM THE 1990 OHIO STATE MINI-CONFERENCE ON SERIAL VERBS "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Edited by TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Brian D. Joseph INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." and Arnold M. Zwicky U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTE R (ERIC) XThis documenthas been reproduced as received from the person or organizalion thiginating it LI Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stated INNS docii merit do not necessaniy represeni official December 1990 OERI position or policy The Ohio State University DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS The Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics No. 39 WHEN VERBS COLLIDE: PAPERS FROM THE 1990 OHIO STATE MINI-CONFERENCE ON SERIAL VERBS Edited by Brian D. Joseph and Arnold M. 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UT' 1 ebruar ":43 pp lOSC.CISBC,TR P11-198 :78. us June 19.'1, 197 pp(ostL('ItiRc--riz.;i--).rn-"N: JUI Pr I. 232 pp. MSC-C.-1SM-- 1 R-71-81141-204 002 u Ati,:list15 7'),107 ppID PIC 830 I:June 1977. 88 pP wsr.ciskc B--2.61PB.210 -81 #I3December 1972, pp D V' :6S Parts ol oil\pril 19'3, I ":), pp I 0 sr!,April 1971, 22 Ipr, I I) Or'. 566 Parts ill' # lbDecembei 19", 114 ppEl) Introduction Though linguists have long realized that particular languages exhibit problematic instances of verbal constituents in series, these phenomena were for the most part treated as matters for the specialists in the languages in question - as peripheral phenomena within these languages, indeed as peripheral phenomena across the languages of the world, and consequently of little interest to the theorist.In the past thirty years there has been a dramatic shift in attitude, set off by three largely independent events in the history of linguistics. First, along with the growth of socioringuistics came a renewed interest in the linguistic (as well as social) characteristics of pidgins and creoles, leading to lhe rediscovery ci Schuchardl's observation that serial verbs (as we now speak of them) are striking, prominent featuros of (at least many of) these languages, and thus not in any sense peripheral.