Modal verbs and generative grammar
Verb concatenation or verb serialization is a widespread phenomenon in Southeast Asian languages (see Goral) and in other linguistic areas as well. In a previous study (Goral), I addressed the following problem: given that in various Southeast Asian languages there are commonly found strings of verb...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179166 |
| Summary: | Verb concatenation or verb serialization is a widespread phenomenon in Southeast Asian languages (see Goral) and in other linguistic areas as well. In a previous study (Goral), I addressed the following problem: given that in various Southeast Asian languages there are commonly found strings of verbs which are uninflected in the sense of European languages, what syntactic and semantic information is available to allow these strings to be interpreted by the layperson, or to be analyzed by the linguist? |
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