<Articles>Serial verbs and monoclausality: A case study on Jinghpaw

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  • Kurabe Keita
    東京外国語大学アジア･アフリカ言語文化研究所

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  • <研究論文>動詞連続と単節性 : ジンポー語の事例研究
  • Serial verbs and monoclausality : A case study on Jinghpaw

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Serial verbs are a prominent feature of many Southeast Asian languages. One of the central questions associated with serial verbs pertains to their clausehood: Are they monoclausal constructions with a single predicate character, or multiclausal constructions like coordinate and subordinate sentences? The aim of this paper is to address this question based on data from Jinghpaw, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in and around northern Myanmar, with a special focus on sequential serial verbs. This paper shows that they are monoclausal constructions by compar-ing them with a chain of clauses in terms of intonation, contiguity, number of component verbs, sharing of grammatical and semantic categories, volitionality matching, argument sharing, yes-answers to questions, bridging constructions, and causation. This paper shows that many of these properties work together to characterize serial verbs as monoclausal despite their superficial similarities to other multiclausal constructions.

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  • 京都大学言語学研究

    京都大学言語学研究 39 93-136, 2020-12-31

    Departmental of Linguistics, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

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