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Instrumental Take- Serial Constructions in Haitian and in Fon

1989; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0008413100013499

1710-1115

Claire Lefebvre,

Phonetics and Phonology Research

Since the paper by Jansen et al (1978), it is a well-known fact that serializing languages divide into two major groups: those which have Take -serial constructions and those which don’t. Haitian creole has Take -serial constructions, as exemplified in (l): (1) Jan pran kabrit ale nan mache John take goat go in market ‘John brought the goat in the market.’ Among the languages which have Take -serial constructions, languages further divide into two groups: those which have instrumental Take constructions and those which do not. An example of an instrumental Take -serial construction is provided in (2). In these constructions, the subject of the second verb is interpreted as the instrument of the complex predicate formed by the series of verbs.