Since the 1970s, serial verb constructions (SVCs) have been discussed widely in African,
Oceanic and many other languages throughout the world. This article gives an overview of …

This paper provides a new perspective on the options available to languages for encoding
directed motion events. Talmy (2000) introduces an influential two-way typology, proposing …

In a serial verb construction (SVC), two or more verbs combine in a single clause without
any morphosyntactic marking of linking or subordination. However, the way in which …

In this chapter, we critically examine Talmy's typological classification of complex event
constructions. Talmy first proposed a typological classification of motion event constructions …

Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by
Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of his Parallel Architecture, in which phonology …

This pioneering study is based on an analysis of over 200 languages, including African,
Amerindian, Australian, Austronesian, Indo-European and Eurasian (Altaic, Caucasian …

This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-
Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in …

The present article aims to give a survey of the typology of serial verb constructions (SVCs)
and the criteria that are needed for defining them. For that purpose, it starts with a detailed …

This paper presents an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Mayan languages. The
focus is primarily descriptive, but the article also attempts to frame the sound patterns of …

Crosslinguistic studies of expressions of motion events have found that Talmy's binary
typology of verb-framed and satellite-framed languages is reflected in language use. In …