Sentence examples similar to special verb construction from inspiring English sources

Tai Dam is like many languages spoken in Southeast Asian region (e.g., Thai, Lao, Burmese, and Vietnamese), in that lexical verbs can be constructed in sequences of two or more verbs, known as a "serial verb construction".

It forms a serial verb construction.

Zhou and Xue (2012) described four characteristics which blur the boundary between discourse construction and serial verb construction.

For instance in (2), there are no essential reasons we need to separate (a) and (b) into different categories of discourse construction and serial verb construction.

Chinese has various constructions to juxtapose two predicative constituents, such as compounding, coordinate constructions, serial verb constructions, and discourse constructions.

Unlike, say, Japanese, English has no special verb forms for politeness, humility and respect.

(Adverbial verb construction)   a'.

(Adverbial verb construction)   b.

(Low adverbial verb construction)   b.

The second type concerns the subject control construction (the serial verb construction in Huang's (1997) definition).

Open image in new window Fig. 10 NAV adverbial verb construction in Example (82).