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Peer reviewedNishiyama, Kunio – Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 1998
Argues for a fundamental structural similarity between serial verb constructions, widely known from Kwa languages, and v-v compounds in Japanese. A major theoretical implication of the analysis is that it supports an analysis of clausal structure where the external argument is not included in the immediate projection of a verb but is introduced by…
Descriptors: African Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
