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The Syntax of Serial Verbs
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Mark Sebba
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese
Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Carol Lord
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-08-06 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a w
Serial Verbs in White Hmong
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Nerida Jarkey
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-02 - Publisher: BRILL

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In Serial Verbs in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey investigates verb serialization, a highly productive grammatical strategy in this dynamic Southeast Asian language
Serial Verb Constructions
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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A serial verb construction is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. This oustanding book is the first to study the phenomenon across languages of diff
Serial Verbs
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford Studies in Typology and

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This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions, in which several verbs combine to form a