Some Issues in Verb Serialization

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In a variety of world languages, notions that would elsewhere be expressed through conjunction, complementation, or secondary predication are rendered uniformly by means of a sequence of verbs or verb phrases. This phenomenon of verb serialization is illustrated by the sentences in (1-3), drawn from languages of West Africa: (1) a. Kofi kɔɔe baae.

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