Serial Verb Constructions
Subtitle: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology)
Contributors: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Editor); R.M.W. Dixon (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 21, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780199279159
First sentence: A serial verb construction (SVC) is a sequence of verbs which act together as a single predicate, without any overt marker of coordination, subordination, or syntactic dependency of any other sort.