What's the best way to support array column types with external tables in hive?

So i have external tables of tab delimited data. A simple table looks like this:

create external table if not exists categories
(id string, tag string, legid string, image string, parent string, created_date string, time_stamp int)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t'
LOCATION 's3n://somewhere/';

Now I'm adding another field to the end, it will be a comma separated list of values.

Is there a way to specify this in the same way that I specify a field terminator, or do I have to rely on one of the serdes?

eg:

...list_of_names ARRAY<String>)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' ARRAY ELEMENTS SEPARATED BY ','
...

(I'm assuming I'll need to use a serde for this, but I figured there wasn't any harm in asking)