| Lemma | serial verb |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Bickerton (1981) |
| Titolo | Roots of Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | serialization (inglese) verb serialization (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Serial verbs form a more marked means of expressing case relations than do prepositions. It is, therefore, relatively unlikely that a language which already had prepositions to mark case would develop serial verbs […]. On the other hand, it is relatively likely that a language which originally had only serial verbs as a case-marking device would subsequently develop prepositions […]. Serial verbs are usually interpreted as the result of African substratum influence on creoles, but creolists seldom if ever ask how those West African languages which have serial verbs […] happen to have come by them. |