This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a w

A serial verb construction is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. This oustanding book is the first to study the phenomenon across languages of diff

The first study into how children acquire Creoles as their first language in the absence of a conventional language model.

In Serial Verbs in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey investigates verb serialization, a highly productive grammatical strategy in this dynamic Southeast Asian language

This book surveys multi-verb constructions in multiple languages from the Americas, showing a very rich tapestry of typologically unusual constructions, includi