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Cole, Douglas James – ProQuest LLC, 2016
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 are related; proposals involving coordination…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Verbs, Language Patterns, Syntax