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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Many Asian languages share, to a greater or lesser extent, a unique class of compound verbs consisting of a main verb and a quasi-auxiliary verb known as a ''vector'' or ''explicator''. These quasi-auxiliary verbs exhibit unique grammatical behaviour that suggests that they have an intermediate status between full lexical verbs and wholly reduced auxiliaries. They are also semantically unique, in that when they are combined with main verbs, they can convey a rich variety of functional meanings beyond the traditional notions of tense, aspect, and modality, such as manner and intensity of action, benefaction for speaker or hearer, and polite or derogatory styles in speech. In this book, leading specialists in a range of Asian languages offer an in-depth analysis of the long-standing questions relating to the diachrony and geogra
Table of Contents1: Taro Kageyama, Peter E. Hook, and Prashant Pardeshi: Introductory remarks Part I: Languages of Northeast Asia 2: Taro Kageyama: Between lexical verbs and auxiliaries: The architecture of Japanese verb-verb complexes 3: Hirofumi Aoki and Bjarke Frellesvig: Verb-verb complexes is Old and Middle Japanese 4: Taro Kageyama: Grammaticalization and constructionalization in Japanese lexical compound verbs 5: Hideki Kishimoto: Syntactic V-V compounds in Japanese 6: Yo Matsumoto: The semantic differentiation of V-te V complexes and V-V compounds in Japanese 7: Michinori Shimoji: V-V complexes in Irabu Ryukyuan 8: Hyun Kyung Hwang and John Whitman: Korean verb-verb sequences Part II: Languages of South Asia 9: Prashant Pardeshi: Classification of complex verbs and the evolution of the compound verb in Marathi 10: Benjamin Slade: Development of verb-verb complexes in Indo-Aryan 11: Peter E. Hook: Births, earthquakes, meteors, and other autogenous expressions: The Hindi-Urdu compound verb and its covert semantics 12: E. Annamalai: The matrix of verb-verb sequences in Tamil 13: Sanford Steever: Verb + verb sequences in Dravidian 14: Bettina Zeisler: Semantically related verb verb combinations in Tibetan and Ladakhi: 1300 years of stable transition Part III: Languages of Central and Northwest Asia 15: Andrej Shluinsky: -V complexes in Turkic languages: Interaction of lexical and delexicalized verbs 16: Noriko Ohsaki and Fuyuki Ebata: Verb-verb complexes in Central and Eastern Turkic languages 17: Yu Kuribayashi: Turkish and Uyghur V-V complexes in contrast 18: Hisanari Yamada: V-V complexes in Avar Part IV: Chinese and Thai 19: Kingkarn Thepkanjana and Satoshi Uehara: Verbal complexes in Thai 20: Hsin-hsin Liang and Peter E. Hook: Verb-verb sequences in Mandarin and Hindi-Urdu: A comparison References Index of languages Index of subjects
