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		Verb Incorporation is one possible explanation for the apparent increase in arguments of the verb in (3), (5) and (7).
		Constructions which attempt to incorporate a verb from a subject or adjunct clause can be expected to be unacceptable.
		apo: first, the [-voice] [-nasal] stop /p/ in the verb corresponds to a prenasalized stop which is [+voice] [+nasal] in the affix; second, the affix lacks the initial vowel /a/ of the verb, reducing it to one syllable; and third, the affix, unlike the verb, is incapable of receiving primary stress.
	hamminkj.cafeprogressive.com /gni_talk.htm (3561 words)

	Alexandre Kimenyi's Website
		A verb, however, even when it is polsyllabic and has multiple suffixes, can have a high tone only either on the first mora of the first syllable or the first of the the second syllable of the stem.
		The metrical domain for verb tone rules is the first mora of the first object pronoun and the first mora of the verb stem for lexical tones and the first mora of the first object pronoun and the first mora of the second syllable of the verb stem.
		The complex form consists of the preprefix, the subject pronoun, the tense-aspect-modality morphemes, the object markers, the reflexive pronoun -i-, the verb stem, the lexical verb extensions, the grammatical morphemes, the aspect marker and the postsuffixes -mó, -hó, or -yó.
	www.kimenyi.com /kinyarwanda.php (2969 words)

	Serial verb construction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In this construction, two or more verbs can be juxtaposed in one clause, sharing the same subject and tense-aspect-modality categories, while only one of the verbs is marked for these categories and conjunctive markings are lacking.
		Serial verb constructions typically express the consecutive or simultaneous aspect of the actions of the verbs.
		In the Chinese languages, serial verb construction is manifested through verbal complements and coverbs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serial_verb_construction (290 words)

	NYU Department of Linguistics: Constance Cummings
		Cross-linguistic evidence from the parallel behavior exhibited by SVCs and verbal compounds in Chinese and Ijo (Nigeria, Benue Congo) further illuminates the uniform, derivational character of the phenomenon.
		It argues that serialization is subject to a derivational constraint on the size of the constituent that moves.
		Serialization disallows head movement through the inflectional complex and conversely allows larger chunks of structure, embedded predicates, to raise to a position high up in the finite clause.
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/lingu/people/graduate/connie (330 words)

	Untitled
		Through a detailed clarification and critical discussion of the concept of serial verbs in Chinese linguistics, it is shown that there exists a strong tendency to treat any sequence of verbal phrases as serial verb constructions without sufficiently regarding the great diversity of the inherent structures.
		In examining the common postulate of the uniqueness of the Chinese serial verb construction, a contrastive analysis considering German and English language data is carried out, which reveals that European languages possess structures which can be regarded as structural equivalents of the Chinese constructions in question.
		In considering the serial verb construction, many other related problems of Chinese linguistics are discussed, for example the complement, the distinction of verbs and prepositions, verbal aspect, the so-called predicative sentence structures, simple and complex sentences, intonation phenomena, punctuation problems and other questions.
	web.uni-frankfurt.de /fb09/sinologie/forschung_wippermanndiss.htm (373 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Temporal verbs may be dynamic or static and by that we imply whether the source of the act involves some force or not.
		For instance, in serializing languages, in expressing the event of cutting something with a knife, not only is the act of cutting expressed with verbal predicates, the acts preceding the cutting are also expressed with verbal predicates, namely, that of grabbing/taking the knife to perform the major act.
		It may be the case that verbs which express the core of the event do not need to readjust their meanings to express the identity of the whole construction, as much as those expressing ancillary parts.
	csli-publications.stanford.edu /LFG/2/bodomo-lfg97.html (6063 words)

	Jorge Hankamer WebFest
		Under this construal, the transitive verb slapoj is separated from its internal argument tzekil by the verb ikom, as diagrammed in (2).
		V2 is the finite verb in this construction—it carries aspect marking for the clause as a whole and it might reasonably be expected to agree with its argument.
		Generative work on such constructions has focused on the questions of structure, of semantic role assignment, and on what feature or parameter distinguishes languages with serial verb constructions from those without (see, for example, Baker (1989) and the papers in Lefebvre (1991)).
	ling.ucsc.edu /Jorge/aissen.html (1528 words)

	Kamakawi Verbs
		A second class of verbs is the class where the derived noun is essentially a nominal form of the verb.
		Another type of verb is a verb whose zero-derived noun is an agent which performs the action of the verb, or who fits the description of the verb.
		This operation is associated with the suffix -mu, and is used on stative verbs to indicate a change of state in the lone argument from not-x to x (where x is the content of the verb).
	dedalvs.free.fr /kamakawi/verbs.html (2693 words)

	Language in India
		We shall argue that in Kannada at least, the serial verb construction is a participial adjunct construction which equally permits all the three participles in the language: imperfect, perfect and negative.
		Thus we cannot readily say that a participle in the verb phrase, in the perfect tense, "is an adjective." Yet English present and perfect participles differ in their licensing requirements in clearly verbal contexts, in precisely the way that reflects their ability to occur in "adjectival" (prenominal or adjunct) contexts.
		Considering now the Kannada "serial verb" data, which allow both perfect participles (in (11i)), and imperfect participles (in (11ii)), we can easily predict that perfect participles in Kannada must fully share the privileges of occurrence of imperfect participles, occurring in positions they are proscribed from in English.
	www.languageinindia.com /may2003/amritavalli.html (3624 words)

	Liang Chen
		Mandarin Chinese, which typically encodes manner in the first verb and path in the second verb of the serial verb (V1+V2) construction (zou3jin4 jiao4shi4 "walk enter classroom"), presents a problem for Talmy’s typology.
		To address this issue, Talmy (2000) argues that the second verb is a complement to the first, similar to a particle, and therefore Mandarin Chinese is a Satellite-framed language.
		However, Tai (2003) argues that the second verb in the serial verb construction is cognitively more salient than the first, and therefore Mandarin Chinese should be classified as a Verb-framed language.
	webhost.ua.ac.be /tisp/viewabstract.php?id=341 (330 words)

	An Experimental Study of Categoriality and Object Extraction in Cantonese Serial Verb Constructions
		The ‘coverb’ construction in Cantonese, a serial verb construction (SVC) in which the first verb (the ‘coverb’) has a preposition-like meaning and function, presents a challenging theoretical puzzle.
		In this paper, we report on an experimental study in which an acceptability rating task was used to compare coverbs with transitive verbs in SVCs in which the object of V1 is extracted.
		Thus, a verb that is the syntactic head of the SVC (allowing aspect) but a semantic modifier is predicted to disallow extraction of its object, and vice versa, in a manner consistent with the full range of experimental results.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~ejfranci/coverbabst.htm (507 words)

	Coverb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A coverb (or converb) is a part of speech that includes words that are lexically verbs, but are generally used to convey the meaning of prepositions.
		The use of coverbs is part of the serial verb construction, which is a basic feature of Chinese grammar.
		Many coverbs can be used as the main verb in a sentence, usually with the addition of modal particles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coverb (304 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In (1), the stative verb puede ‘to be able’is not preceded by any marker; it is clear from the context that the verb refers to the present or future (i.e.
		In (2), it is clear from the context that the unmarked stative verb quiere does refer to the past.
		The comparison of adjectives is not accomplished with a serial verb construction with ‘pass’, but rather with constructions more similar to those of Spanish.
	filipinokastila.tripod.com /chaba11.html (4861 words)

	[Creolica] Articles publiés
		Thus, we define the IOC construction as a construction in which the Theme is treated in the same way as the monotransitive Patient, and the Recipient is treated differently, as illustated in (a) in Figure 1.
		The DOC construction is defined as a construction in which the Theme and the Recipient are both treated like the monotransitive Patient, as is illustrated in (b).
		In this construction, it is the Recipient that is treated in the same way as the monotransitive Patient (both count as "primary objects"), and the Theme is treated in a special way (it is the "secondary object").
	www.creolica.net /article.php3?id_article=28 (3830 words)

	OUP: UK General Catalogue
		A serial verb construction (sometimes just called serial verb) is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one.
		Serial verb constructions are a pervasive feature of isolating languages of Asia and West Africa, and are also found in the languages of the Pacific, South, Central and North America, most of them endangered.
		Serial verbs have been a subject of interest among linguists for some time.
	www.oup.com /uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199279159 (554 words)

	[No title]
		Looking at language this way involves a serious adjustment for the linguist, since we have developed the habit of seeing utterances in terms of a fixed framework of rules, and especially because we have been raised on the doctrine of the free generability of sentences, and the privileging of novelty over prior texts.
		Instead it seems that constructions spread outwards from a small nucleus and in turn form new nuclei (something like the metastasis of malignant cells, to co-opt a metaphor of Bolinger's), and the resultant array of clauses are in 'family resemblance' relationships to one another.
		Discourses may now be constructed by stringing together these transitive clauses, together with a few other quite easily characterizable types, substituting new nouns and verbs as needed, but generally keeping the basic shape of the figure intact.
	home.eserver.org /hopper/emergence.html (6025 words)

	ENUS 2005 Poster
		Verb serialisation is found in many of the languages of East Nusantara.
		We can say that a sequence of verbs qualifies as a serial verb construction if there is no marker of syntactic dependency between the components.
		Which verbs are likely to appear in serial verb constructions, and which are not?
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /aapp/ENUS2005Poster.html (453 words)

	SALA Conference
		This paper investigates the historical development of compound verb [CV] constructions in modern Indo-Aryan [I-A] as motivated by the collapse of the Indo-European [I-E] system of preverbal marking of Aktionsart properties.
		We proceed via comparative analysis of relevant forms drawn from various languages and stages of I-A. I-A CV constructions, in which a main verb in a stem form is followed by an inflected form of a ‘vector’ verb, are connected with, and ultimately derived from, Sanskrit absolutives [ab.] in –ya.
		Modern I-A languages show increased use of absolutive/conjunctive participles, and additionally use the same participles in CV constructions, which results in some sentences which are thus indeterminate between CV complex predication and conjunctive clause-chaining [see (1)].
	www.linguistics.uiuc.edu /sala25/slade.htm (502 words)

	Sheli Babel Text - Langmaker
		In a serial verb construction, the second verb is always put into the genitive.
		The last verb pair is another example of a serial construction--not of an auxiliary plus a main verb.
		The "drop" verb means "to scatter" when combined with classifier 74, which classifies actions which occur multiple times in rapid (generally) succession.
	www.langmaker.com /db/Sheli_Babel_Text (968 words)

	The Serial Verb Construction Parameter:0815340435:Stewart, Osamuyimen Thompson:eCampus.com
		This book investigates the serial verb construction - - engaging central issues in syntactic theory regarding complex predicates, clausal architecture, and syntactic variation.
		First, on the basis of an analysis of verb movement to Infl, the book argues that the occurrence of verb serialization in a given language is determined by the properties and relationship of a functional item (Tense) to a lexical item (Verb) -- not by an optional configuration of lexical phrase structure.
		Consequently, serial verbs occur only in languages where the verbs do not need to raise to check features with Infl (e.g.
	www.ecampus.com /book/0815340435 (271 words)

	LINGUIST List 7.919: Written Syntax & Lg Equality
		The full range of uses of Yoruba fun is somewhat similar to the range of uses of the APP verb suffix in Bantu, and goes far beyond "dative" uses, as indeed "to" does in English.
		The idea that the serial verb construction exemplified above for Yoruba either consists of or derives historically from a two-sentence construction, is a naive idea that mountains of literature on serial verb constructions refute.
		For good measure, we might as well note that Yoruba is the most advanced among the serial verb languages in its area in having a peculiar constraint that one and only one object can be unmarked (for "case").
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/7/7-919.html (1996 words)

	Representations of Episodic Events: Case Studies from Serial Verb Constructions and Sports Commentaries - Department of ...
		Such verbs typically represent a compact event sequence, whose sub-events are semantically integral parts of a temporally tight-knit 'macro-event' (Bohnemeyer 2001).
		The event structures represented by this kind of SVC have been called 'episodic' (Pawley 1987), 'condensed narrative' (Heeschen 2001) and 'narrative' (van Staden and Senft 2002) because the SVC represents a sequence of compact events each marking a distinct phase or stage in an episode.
		All verb roots (there may be as many as eight or nine) share the same TAM and surface subject but not necessarily the same logical subject and they must share the same direct object if any.
	logos.uoregon.edu /symposium/abstracts/pawley.html (655 words)

	Amazon.com: The Serial Verb Construction Parameter (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics): Books: Thompson Stewar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		by Thompson Stewar "The serial verb construction (SVC) is one of the better studied phenomena associated with West African linguistics (cf.
		An investigation of the serial verb construction, this work engages central issues in syntactic theory-complex predicates, clausal architecture and syntactic variation.
		The serial verb construction (SVC) is one of the better studied phenomena associated with West African linguistics (cf.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0815340435 (572 words)

	[No title]
		In spite of its Middle Chinese innovation, in Early Mandarin BA was still commonly used as a verb.
		As a result, the BA in the Middle Chinese biclausal serial verb construction, BA NP V (NP), went out of fashion and was grammaticalized into an operator of a monoclausal construction with the following V as the main predicate of the proposition in late Early Mandarin.
		Typically a serial verb construction can go with a purposive construction in Chinese at different times.
	mambo.ucsc.edu /psl/cslisem/199402/19940223.html (2440 words)

	La dicha ("Joy")
		Note the serial construction used to make the perfective of the copula, with sos- 'have come' and the inceptive copula.
		Though the discursive verb makes it clear that the proposition is reported speech, -le emphasizes the uncertainty and disconcert that the poet tries to convey.
		The core arguments of the finite verb (in this case dumarchen) are made genitive as the verb becomes an active participle.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/nyh/bokuchi/lng/corpus/ladicha.html (2123 words)

	Raceandhistory.com - Nigeria: The Edo of Benin
		The ruling dynasties of most of the Igbo states between Agbor and Onitsha claim Edo origins, and most of their palace chieftancy titles are Edo terms.
		Benin City itself is surrounded by a series of concentric earthwork moats (iya).
		Similar moats are found on a large area to the north and west of the City; added together, according to the archaeologist Patrick Darling, the Edo moats are longer than the Great Wall of China.
	www.raceandhistory.com /historicalviews/edoofbenin.htm (3931 words)

	LINGUIST List 12.1422: Syntax
		Sean Hanrahan, Syntax: The Serial Verb Construction Parameter by Stewart
		The Relationship between the Conjunct Verb and the Complementizer Position 4.
		Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart, University of British Columbia, THE SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTION PARAMETER An investigation of the serial verb construction, this work engages central issues in syntactic theory-complex predicates, clausal architecture and syntactic variation.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/12/12-1422.html (360 words)

	The Serial Verb Construction Parameter (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics) by Thompson Stewar, New, Used Books, ...
		The two-word verb: A dictionary of the verb-prepos...
		Verb First: On The Syntax Of Verb Initial Language...
		The Serial Verb Formation in the Dravidian Languag...
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