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Uncovering Serial Verb Constructions in Tibeto-Burman Languages

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2022
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Muheim, N. (2022). Uncovering Serial Verb Constructions in Tibeto-Burman Languages. (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-222609

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Serial verb constructions (abbreviated as SVC) are a fascinating syntactic structure where more than one finite verb occurs in the same clause. Since the first description of this phenomenon in the two West African languages Akan and Twi by the two German missionaries Riis (1854) and Christaller (1875) (cited in Lovestrand 2021: 110, Lord 1993: 7) the phenomenon has been studied in a wide variety of other languages. Still, there is no final consensus on what SVCs are up to this day. Nonetheless, more recent publications about SVCs (e.

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  • Muheim, Nora

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Faculty of Arts

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  • Ivani, Jessica

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2022-06-01

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Muheim, N. (2022). Uncovering Serial Verb Constructions in Tibeto-Burman Languages. (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-222609

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