Serial verb constructions (SVCs)
Serial Verb Constructions in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara
... and serial verbs at the clause and nucleus level. Multiple verb sentences display switch reference in dependent verb forms and clausal ...compound verb. The study of nexus juncture relations ...
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Case Checking in Igbo Serial Verb Constructions
... Igbo, serial verb, noun, subject, object 1. Introduction Serial verbs are complex syntactic structures that are internally made up of a number of ...languages. Serial verbs allow the speaker ...
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Serial verb constructions in Krio and Akan
... i Abstract This study focuses on serial verb constructions (SVC) in Krio and a comparison of Krio and Akan serial verb construction types. We present a Krio corpus consisting of ...
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The development of asymmetrical serial verb constructions in an Australian mixed language
... these constructions in Gurindji Kriol is not ...the verb phrase (as defined by the use of Kriol auxiliaries such as the TAM markers garra in (1a) and bin in (1b)), this type of construction is restricted in ...
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The Headedness of Mandarin Chinese Serial Verb Constructions: A Corpus-Based Study
... Chinese serial verb constructions incorrectly or inconsistently in terms of headedness, ...which verb to be assigned with the label of syntactic and/or semantic ...in serial verb ...
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Structure and grammaticalization of serial verb constructions in sign language of the Netherlands: A corpus-based study
... section Serial Verb Constructions in NGT, NGT has traditionally been described as an SOV ...main verb ( Greenberg, 1963 , ...fixed verb vis-à-vis the free ...
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Hypothesis Scoring over Theta Grids Information in Parsing Chinese Sentences with Serial Verb Constructions
... Hypothesis Scoring over Theta Grids Information in Parsing Chinese Sentences with Serial Verb Constructions Hypothesis Scoring over Theta Grids Information in Parsing Chinese Sentences with Serial Ver[.] ...
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Constraints and Type Hierarchies for Korean Serial Verb Constructions - An Analytic Study within the HPSG Framework -
... Korean serial verb constructions within the HPSG framework, and covers major descriptive characteristics of the ...on serial verb constructions in terms of four aspects; ...
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Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in Mandarin Chinese
... Different from the Vector SVC which semantically consists of one core event and its satellite with deictic or aspectual meaning, the Anchoring SVC is made up of two individual sub-events, one of which is anchored based ...
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A Computational Treatment of Korean Serial Verb Constructions
... One main characteristic of the SVCs is that the succession of multiple verbs behaves like a complex predicate with mono-clausal properties. Korean SVCs are not exception. For example, we can observe that only one subject ...
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Verb Serialization and Argument Unification? A Case Study of Three Serial Verb Constructions in Tsou
... If serial verbs are not equally syntactic autonomous, a question then emerges as to whether the individual verbs are equally important in contributing arguments to the serial ...In serial context, ...
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Constructional Changes of Chinese Lai/Qu in Serial Verb Constructions
... 6. Conclusion In this paper, we investigate how the Chinese lai and qu take place the constructional changes from the pre-Qin period to the Medieval period from the perspective of constructionalization. The research ...
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Draft In support of an OT-DM model: Evidence from clitic distribution in Degema serial verb constructions
... As stated above, syntax alone is insufficient to account for these patterns as it would require non-standard sensitivity to phonological information, among other shortcomings. Given that syntax is insufficient, we ...
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Serial verb constructions
... first verb, since it can be paraphrased with a relative ...second verb form corresponds semantically to a present participle (as suggested by the ...first verb is more restricted than the ...
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Interrogative serial verb constructions in Kavalan
... The analysis on the structure of ISVCs has significant implications to the theory of argument structure and the syntactic representations of heads, comple- ments, and adjuncts. The syntactic structure of a naquni-ISVC is ...
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Serial Verb Constructions: a cross-linguistic typology
... asym metrical serial verb construction 3-4. 343, see also associative se rial verb construction.. see also coo rdination ,. conjoined str uctur es[r] ...
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Mandarin Directional Serial Verb Constructions: A Constructionist Approach
... Chapter 3 Building up the Theory As we discussed in Chapter 1, this thesis aims to put to the test the neo- constructionist approaches by investigating the Mandarin DSVCs. In Chapter 2, we have identified our empirical ...
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Reanalysis of Serial Verb Constructions in Yimas, a Sepik-Ramu Language of Papua New Guinea
... If it occurs with a monovalent verb such as wapal 'climb' as in example (59), the 0 prefix codes the causee and the A prefix codes the causer. This is the same as when tar-tal is the cau[r] ...
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Support verb constructions
... – are the readings of the nominalised polysemous verbs always restricted to one (cp. Storrer’s Absage erteilen: only ‘refuse’)?. (8) einem Bewerber eine Absage erteilen.[r] ...
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