Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions.
This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1993.
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 26. |
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