Essays about: "verb-initial languages"

Found 1 essay containing the words verb-initial languages.

  1. 1. She seldoms to what? An investigation into adverbial verbs and interrogative verbs in verb-initial languages

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Victor Bogren Svensson; [2017]
    Keywords : Adverbial verbs; interrogative verbs; verb-initial languages; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Adverbial verbs and interrogative verbs are two relatively rare and underexplored linguistic phenomena that are investigated in this typological study. Adverbial verbs are verbal constituents that possess the morphosyntactic properties of verbs but that encode manner and temporal information, instead of referring to states or events as verbs prototypically do. READ MORE