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<div class="">Burmese (Sino-tibetan) uses serial verb constructions, and does have a SVC to express habitual meaning. This SVC contains the verb တတ် /<span class="" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:14px">taʔ</span>/ that appears after another
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<div class="">The verb တတ် /<span class="" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:14px">taʔ</span>/ outside of the construction means ‘be skilled, know’.</div>
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<div class="">Examples could be found in my chapter on Burmese (Vittrant 2019 : 58), or in Vittrant (2006) or <a href="https://journals.openedition.org/lidil/3246" class="">(2012</a>) on SVC in Burmese.</div>
<div class="">See also Jenny & Hnin Tun (2016:209)</div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><a href="http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/Annuaires/Index.asp?Langue=FR&Page=Alice VITTRANT" class="">Vittrant, A.</a>, 2019, "Burmese", in
<i class="">The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area</i>, Vittrant, A. & Watkins, J. (eds), Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 56-130</font></div>
<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><a href="http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/Annuaires/Index.asp?Langue=FR&Page=Alice VITTRANT" class="">Vittrant, A.</a>, 2012, "How typology allows for a new analysis of the verb
phrase in Burmese", <i class="">Lidil</i>, 46, pp. 101-126</font></div>
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du syntagme verbal en birman", <i class="">Bulletin de la Société de linguistique de Paris</i>, CI, pp. 305-368</font></div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:12pt; color:windowtext">M. Jenny & San San Hnin Tun, </span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:12pt; color:windowtext">Burmese:
A comprehensive grammar</span></i><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:12pt">, </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:12pt; color:windowtext">New York: Routledge, 2016.</span>
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<div class="">Le 17 avr. 2023 à 10:20, Sune Gregersen <<a href="mailto:s.gregersen@isfas.uni-kiel.de" class="">s.gregersen@isfas.uni-kiel.de</a>> a écrit :</div>
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<p class="">In connection with an investigation of habitual markers, we are looking for information on languages which use serial verb constructions (SVCs) to express habitual meaning, i.e. for customarily or typically recurring situations. An example of this
is seen in (1), from Papuan Malay [ISO 639-3: pmy], where the verb <i class="">taw</i> can be combined with another verb to express a habitual situation. Outside of this construction, the verb
<i class="">taw</i> means 'know', as in (2):<br class="">
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(1) Papuan Malay (Kluge 2023: 8)<br class="">
<i class="">dong <b class="">taw</b> maing foli</i><br class="">
3PL know play volleyball<br class="">
'they habitually play volleyball'<br class="">
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(2) Papuan Malay (Kluge 2023: 7)<br class="">
<i class="">mama de blum <b class="">taw</b> tempat itu</i><br class="">
mother 3SG not.yet know place DISTAL.DEM<br class="">
'mother doesn’t yet know that place'<br class="">
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We adhere to the definition of SVC offered by Haspelmath (2016: 296): "a monoclausal construction consisting of multiple independent verbs with no element linking them and with no predicate–argument relation between the verbs".<br class="">
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That the verbs must be "independent" means that they must be able to occur on their own in a non-elliptical utterance (see Haspelmath [2016: 302–304] for details). This does not exclude the possibility that the verbs in a SVC are pronounced as a single phonological
word. Hence the definition also covers some constructions which may be termed differently in grammars, e.g. "verb incorporation", "verbal compounds", or "secondary verbs". An example of such a SVC is seen in (3) from Northern Paiute [pao]. The combination
of 'kill' with<i class=""> </i><i class="">čakwi</i>, literally 'carry', gives the habitual meaning 'would kill'. However, 'carry' may also be used as an independent verb, as shown in (4):<br class="">
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(3) Northern Paiute (Thornes 2003: 266)<br class="">
<i class="">nɨnmi kammɨ koi-<b class="">čakwi </b></i><br class="">
1.EXCL jackrabbit kill.PL-carry<br class="">
'We would kill jackrabbits.'<br class="">
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(4) Northern Paiute (Snapp et al. 1982: 68)<br class="">
<i class="">baa-huu-na i gunna pa-to-<b class="">ǰakwi</b>-kɨ-kwɨnai-hu</i><br class="">
water-flow-SUBORD my wood water-shoulder-carry-APPLIC-away-PUNCTUAL<br class="">
'The flood carried away my wood.'<br class="">
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Apart from Papuan Malay and Northern Paiute, we have examples from the following languages so far: Anamuxra [imi], Dumo [vam], Kwomtari [kwo], Lao [lao], Sezo [sze], Tariana [tae], and Yace [ekr]. We would be most grateful for any information on other habitual
serial verb constructions, including verbal compounds, in any language of the world.</p>
<p class="">With all best wishes,<br class="">
Eva van Lier (Amsterdam) and Sune Gregersen (Kiel)</p>
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<p class="">REFERENCES</p>
<p class="">Haspelmath, Martin. 2016. The serial verb construction: Comparative concept and cross-linguistic generalizations. Language and Linguistics 17(3). 291–319.
<a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1177/2397002215626895">
https://doi.org/10.1177/2397002215626895</a><br class="">
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Kluge, Angela. 2023. Serial verb constructions in Papuan Malay: Forms, functions and indeterminacy. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 16(1). 1–36.
<a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52507">http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52507</a><br class="">
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Snapp, Allen, John Anderson & Joy Anderson. 1982. Northern Paiute. In Ronald W. Langacker (ed.), Studies in Uto-Aztecan grammar 3: Uto-Aztecan grammatical sketches, 1-92. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/8593</a><br class="">
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Thornes, Timothy Jon. 2003. A Northern Paiute grammar and texts. Doctoral dissertation, University of Oregon.<br class="">
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