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      The earliest Serial Verb Constructions in Aramaic? Verb-verb constructions with hlk 'go' and ?th 'come' in Old Aramaic

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          This paper presents examples in which hlk 'walk, go' and ?th 'come' appear in multi-verb constructions conforming to the definition of asymmetrical serial verb constructions (SVCs). In these constructions, hlk and ?th do not appear to be used with their concrete lexical senses as verbs constituting the predicate of a separate clause. Rather, they are found in the V1 position and appear to be used as minor verbs contributing an aspectual nuance of immediacy to the major verb in the V2 position. Broader usage of these verbal forms in Old Aramaic and cognate languages is consistent with a source of such SVCs from the fusion of bi-clausal constructions.

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              Serial Verbs

              In many languages of the world, a sequence of several verbs act together as one unit. These sequences—known as serial verbs—form one predicate and contain no overt marker of coordination, subordination, or syntactic dependency of any sort. Serial verbs describe what can be conceptualized as one single event. They are often pronounced as if they were one word, and tend to share subjects and objects. The whole serial verb will have one value for tense, aspect, mood, modality, and evidentiality. Their components cannot be negated or questioned separately without negating or questioning the whole construction. Asymmetrical serial verbs consist of a ‘minor’ verb from a closed class and a major verb from an open class. The minor component tends to grammaticalize giving rise to markers of aspect, directionality, valency increase, prepositions, and coordinators. Symmetrical serial verbs consist of several components each from an open class. They may undergo lexicalization and become non-compositional idioms. Various grammatical categories—including person, tense, aspect, and negation—can be marked on each component, or just once per construction. Serial verb constructions are a powerful means for a detailed portrayal of various facets of one event. They have numerous grammatical and discourse functions. Serial verbs have to be distinguished from verb sequences of other kinds, including constructions with converbs and auxiliaries, and from verbal compounds. The book sets out cross-linguistic parameters of variation for serial verbs based on an inductive approach and discusses their synchronic and diachronic properties, functions, and histories.

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                spilplus
                Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus (SPiL Plus)
                SPiL plus (Online)
                Department of General Linguistics of Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa )
                1726-541X
                2224-3380
                2023
                : 65
                : 89-103
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                [01] orgnameThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem orgdiv1Department of Linguistics christian.locatell@ 123456mail.huji.ac.il
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                S2224-33802023000100007 S2224-3380(23)06500000007
                10.5842/65-1-971
                60562c70-8e49-491b-87b7-4e16af0ee803

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                Part 2: Dynamization of synchrony - Related languages across time

                Old Aramaic,Serial verb constructions,grammaticalization,historical linguistics

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