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== Multi-/Serial Verb Constructions ==
 
== Multi-/Serial Verb Constructions ==
 
What are multi-/serial verb constructions? Are sentences like the following serial verb constructions?
 
What are multi-/serial verb constructions? Are sentences like the following serial verb constructions?

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Edited by Gautam Sengupta and Lars Hellan


Multi-/Serial Verb Constructions

What are multi-/serial verb constructions? Are sentences like the following serial verb constructions?

Sally wants John to leave.

John wants PRO to leave.

Susan is easy to please.

Presumably, these are not mvc/svc's, at least they are not so-called in the literature. What is the justification hen of labeling the following as a serial verb construction

আমি বাড়ি গিয়ে ভাত খেয়ে ঘুমাবো
“I will go home, eat rice and sleep”
ami
ami
1SG
PN
baRi
baRi
home
N
gie
gie
goCMPL
V
bhat
bhat
rice
N
khee
khee
eatCMPL
V
ghumabo
ghumabo 
sleep  
V
 
  
  
 

which may be structurally identical to the second sentence in the previous paragraph?
ami [PRO baRi gie] [PRO bhat khee] ghumabo