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Serial verb construction: A cognitive typology study on Chinese
… typology of Chinese from the perspective of serial verb construction (SVC in short) both at the synchronic level and the diachronic level. In order to do so we first propose a canonical definition for SVC. This is based on the previous descriptive works of SVC that can be classified into two …
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Serial verb constructions or verb compounds? : a prototype approach to resultative verb constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Resultative verb constructions RVCs (hereafter) are a special type of serial verb construction in Mandarin Chinese, in which the verbs hold an action-result relation. On the one hand, they behave like compounds, e.g., the verbs can be questioned as a single verb but cannot be separately modified, …
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A grammar of the Neverver language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
… and a set of pronominal-nouns. Possessive constructions suggest an earlier system based on the semantic notion of alienability; today constructions are formed by a combination of semantic and phonological properties. The nominal modifying particle is employed in one type of possessive …