Publication: The far West of Southeast Asia: ‘Give’ and ‘get’ in the languages of Myanmar
The far West of Southeast Asia: ‘Give’ and ‘get’ in the languages of Myanmar
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Jenny, M. (2015). The far West of Southeast Asia: ‘Give’ and ‘get’ in the languages of Myanmar. In N. J. Enfield & B. Comrie (Eds.), Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia (pp. 155–208). de Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501501685-006
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One common construction type found across the languages of Mainland SEA (and South Asia) is the use of secondary verbs as verbal modifiers. In most, if not all languages, of the area, two of these secondary verbs stand out with special and related functions. In these constructions, the lexical verbs ‘give’ and ‘get’ occur in different grammatical functions, depending in most languages on the position before or after the main verb (Enfield 2003). Both ‘get’ and ‘give’ typically describe a ‘transfer of control over an object’, though fr
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Jenny, M. (2015). The far West of Southeast Asia: ‘Give’ and ‘get’ in the languages of Myanmar. In N. J. Enfield & B. Comrie (Eds.), Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia (pp. 155–208). de Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501501685-006