Abstract This article presents the results of an intragenetic crosslinguistic study of serial verb constructions (SVCs) in Kwa. Based on a sample of 28 Kwa languages, the article examines the crucial morphosyntactic features of Kwa SVCs and the range of meanings of the two most common grammaticalized types of Kwa SVCs, ‘take’ and ‘give’ SVCs. The morphosyntactic features of SVCs considered include unity of subject, unity of TAM, unity of negation, and absence of an overt marker of a syntactic relation. The three types of ‘take’ SVCs – lative ‘take’ SVCs, instrumental ‘take’ SVCs, and objectal ‘take’ SVCs – are treated separately. Uses of different types of ‘take’ SVCs and of ‘give’ SVCs turn out to be subject to implicational cross-Kwa restrictions that are formulated via hierarchies or semantic maps. Significant crosslinguistic variation is discovered, and it is argued that sometimes the similarities between Kwa languages can be most naturally explained by independent development.

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Kwa系列动词结构的内生类型学

摘要本文介绍了在夸（Kwa）地区进行的系列动词结构（SVC）的内生跨语言研究的结果。本文基于28种Kwa语言的样本，研究了Kwa SVC的关键句法语法特征以及两种最常见的语法化类型的Kwa SVC（“ take”和“ give” SVC）的含义范围。所考虑的SVC的句法特征包括主题的统一性，TAM的统一性，否定性的统一性以及不存在句法关系的明显标记。“获取” SVC的三种类型分别是：相对的“获取” SVC，工具性“获取” SVC和客观“获取” SVC。事实证明，使用不同类型的“获取” SVC和“给予” SVC会受到隐含的跨Kwa限制，这些限制是通过层次结构或语义图制定的。