Lao serial verb constructions and their event representations
This dissertation is an investigation of serial verb constructions in Lao (Tai-Kadai, SVO) and the events that they encode. Serial verb constructions (SVCs), structures where multiple verbs appear in a single clause, raise several important questions for syntactic theory. One issue is how the verbs...
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University of Iowa
2016
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Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2197 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6847&context=etd |