In a serial verb construction (SVC), two or more verbs combine in a single clause without
any morphosyntactic marking of linking or subordination. However, the way in which …

The present article aims to give a survey of the typology of serial verb constructions (SVCs)
and the criteria that are needed for defining them. For that purpose, it starts with a detailed …

[T] he term complex predicate is used to designate a construction that involves two or more
predicational elements (such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives) which predicate as a single …

Chinese has been considered a serializing language in most works on the subject. Indeed,
most of the categories of SVC identified in Chapter 1 of this volume are represented in …

Pseudocoordinations (for example sitte og skrive 'sit and write') look like coordinations, but
do not have the syntactic properties of coordinations. Their analysis is a classical problem in …

Dàgáárè (a Gur language) allows various patterns of predicate clefting together with object
pied-piping. This article investigates interactions of Predicate Cleft Constructions (PCCs) …

Since the 1960's, the systematic description of languages has gained unprecedented
attention among linguists. While scholars have documented robust evidence for universal …

This dissertation discusses the distribution of object pronouns, subject and object
resumptive elements, and clausal determiners in Kwa (Niger-Congo) languages, particularly …

Barayin is an East Chadic language spoken by around 5000 people in the Guera region of
the Republic of Chad. This dissertation examines a particular type of syntactic construction …

This dissertation examines both syntax and semantics of the Serial Verb Constructions
(SVCs) in Thai in Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) framework. It is proposed that there are …