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Serial verb constructions in Mwotlap

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Mwotlap is an Austronesian language of the Oceanic branch, spoken by about 1800 speakers on Motalava, a small island of the Banks group, north of Vanuatu (François 2001, 2003). Contrary to many languages from the same area-e.g. Paama (Crowley 1987), Ambae (Hyslop 2001), Araki (François 2002)-, Mwotlap has almost no traces of serialisation between verb phrases (of the type I'll PUSH you you'll FALL).Th e only productive case of verb serialisation is of a different pattern, with two or more verbs chained together within a single verb phrase (of the type I'll PUSH FALL you)...
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halshs-00135834, version 1 (09-03-2007)

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Alexandre François. Serial verb constructions in Mwotlap. R.M.W. Dixon & Alexandra Aikhenvald (eds). Serial Verb Constructions: A cross-linguistic typology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.223-238, 2005, Explorations in Linguistic Typology. ⟨halshs-00135834⟩
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