Difference between revisions of "Verb Phrases"
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| Aladi || kill || chicken || eats || || | | Aladi || kill || chicken || eats || || | ||
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| Aladi || killed || chicken || and || ate || the chicken | | Aladi || killed || chicken || and || ate || the chicken (D:22). | ||
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| Dorcas || break || door || DEF.DIST || break || || || | | Dorcas || break || door || DEF.DIST || break || || || | ||
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| Dorcas, || break || the | | Dorcas, || break || the || door (D:?). || || || || | ||
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Revision as of 15:19, 15 September 2021
The serial verb construction, also known as (verb) serialization or verb stacking, is a syntactic phenomenon in which two or more verbs or verb phrases are strung together in a single clause.
| aladi | kpa | adʒuwɛ | dʒɛ | ||
| Aladi | kill | chicken | eats | ||
| Aladi | killed | chicken | and | ate | the chicken (D:22). |
A cognate object (or cognate accusative) is a verb's object that is etymologically related to the verb. More specifically, the verb is one that is ordinarily intransitive (lacking any object), and the cognate object is simply the verb's noun form.
| u | l(e) | t(i) | ona | dʒidʒi | ɛɹɛ |
| 1SG | walk(V) | to | path | long | trek(N) |
| He | walked | a | long | walk | (D: 207). |
The split verb is a verb that sentence-finally appears as one word, however can be split so part of the verb appears earlier in the sentence.
| dorkas | kp | ɔna | lɛ | fɔ | |||
| Dorcas | break | door | DEF.DIST | break | |||
| Dorcas, | break | the | door (D:?). |
dokas kp ɔna lɛ fɔ
/dokas kpɔ ɔna lɛ fɔ/
Dorcas break door DEF.DIST break
Dorcas, break the door!