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<p>Dear David</p>
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<p>Yes, there are examples - especially with the meaning of 'transfer'; this will be mentioned in my forthcoming book on Serial verbs (OUP), to be finished very soon; I could let you have the relevant chapters.</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of David Gil <gil@shh.mpg.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 3 July 2017 3:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] query: serial verb constructions</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear typologists,<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Is anybody familiar with a language that has serial verb constructions of the form</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(1) A <span> </span>DO/MAKE <span></span>P
<span> </span>VERB.OF.MOTION <span> </span>G</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">with no additional argument flagging, and where the resulting meaning is one of those indicated in (a) and (b) below?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(a) 'A gave P to G'</span><span lang="EN-US"><br>
(b) 'A took P from G'</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The reason I'm asking:<span> </span>I am reconstructing sentences such as in (1) for some languages of western New Guinea, as a first stage in a possible chain of grammaticalization, so I am wondering whether similar
constructions are actually attested in any of the world's languages. (Seems to me that this is something that might conceivably be found in Mainland Southeast Asia, West Africa, or Atlantic Creoles.)<br>
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David
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