Summary: | A serial verb construction (sometimes just called serial verb) is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. This outstanding book is the first to study the phenomenon across languages of different typological and genetic profiles. The authors, all experienced linguistic fieldworkers, follow a unified typological approach and avoid formalisms. The book will interest students, at graduate level and above, of syntax, typology, language universals, information structure, and. language contact. in departments of linguistics and anthroplogy. - ;This volume of new work explores the forms and fun.
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