Speaker: Victor Bogren Svensson (SOL) Title: Resultatives in Takituduh Bunun

Abstract:

I will present some preliminary results for resultative constructions in Takituduh Bunun (Austronesian: Central Taiwan). Resultatives are a kind of complex predicate where the clause object undergoes some kind of change, encoded by a combination of a verb and a result phrase (e.g. ‘He hammered the iron flat’ and ‘She cut the paper into pieces’, where ‘hammer’ and ‘cut’ are the verbs and ‘flat’ and ‘into pieces’ are the result phrases, respectively). To mark resultatives, Takituduh Bunun combines independent verbs to form multi-verbal predicates. This is a very productive process that also exhibits a great degree of flexibility, both in terms on the ordering of the verbs and their combinations. In the talk, I will focus on how verbs are combined to form resultative constructions, and how this relates to argument structure and transitivity, word order, clause structure and restructuring.

 

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