Lenakel
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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Lenakel; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.5 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: multiple references
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 2
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.5
Summary
Lenakel, like the other South Vanuatu languages, features the so-called 'echo-subject' construction in which a verbal prefix etymologically from the conjunction 'and' is used with a non-initial verb in place of a normal subject agreement marker if the subject of that verb is the same as the previous verb.
Primary references
Lynch, John. 1983. Switch Reference in Lenakel. In John Haiman & Pamela Munro (eds.), Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981, 209–221. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.2.12lyn
Ross, Daniel. 2021. Pseudocoordination, Serial Verb Constructions and Multi-Verb Predicates: The relationship between form and structure. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. dissertation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5546425 [Sections 2.2.3.5 & 4.4]