serial verb construction

Within a serial verb construction, all verbs must agree in tense.

Ewe also has a rich system of serial verb constructions.

More complex meanings can be expressed through the use of serial verb constructions.

The language also features various types of multiverb and serial verb constructions.

Serial verb constructions are common and important, as in many West African languages.

Other common features include the use of serial verb constructions and compound nouns.

Serial verb constructions occur with two or three verbs in sequence.

Here is an example showing a serial verb construction involving several coverbs:

Thai exhibits serial verb constructions, where verbs are strung together.

Serial verb construction is a basic feature of Chinese grammar, in which two or more verbs are concatenated together.

Serial verb construction is quite common.

Despite the frequency of the phenomenon, there is no standard view on the proper analysis of serial verb constructions.

Verbs in Ske can be linked together in serial verb constructions.

Subject relationships within serial verb constructions in Numbami and Jabêm.

Serial verb constructions are also allowed.

Serial verb constructions exhibit the following recurrent properties:

Gurindji Kriol also contains asymmetrical serial verb constructions.

Analogously to prepositions serial verb constructions may be used to introduce an actant:

The use of coverbs is part of the serial verb construction, which is a basic feature of Chinese grammar.

Gbe languages share an areal feature found in many languages of the Volta basin, the serial verb construction.

By far the most common adjunct is a verb stem itself; this construction is called a serial verb construction.

There are three potential parts to the asymmetrical serial verb construction: auxiliary, minor verb and main verb.

Proto-Mon-Khmer also makes use of noun classifiers and serial verb constructions (Shorto 2006).

They are extremely poor in adpositions: serial verb constructions replace most functions of adpositions in languages like English.

Instead, AdaSL uses several types of serial verb constructions also found in the surrounding oral language, Akan.