| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Note on Orthography and Tones | p. xix |
| Introduction: In Search of Serial Verb Constructions | p. 3 |
| Previous Research on SVCs | p. 6 |
| Early Research | p. 6 |
| Principles and Parameters Approach | p. 8 |
| On the Definition of SVCs | p. 12 |
| Interpretation and Verb Sequencing Constraints | p. 12 |
| Conclusion | p. 16 |
| Notes | p. 16 |
| Two Types of SVCs Versus Covert Coordinations | p. 19 |
| Distribution and Licensing of Manner Adverbs | p. 19 |
| I-type Adverb before First Verb | p. 24 |
| I-type Adverb before Second Verb | p. 26 |
| N-type Adverb after First Verb | p. 36 |
| N-type Adverb after Second Verb | p. 40 |
| Distribution of Adjuncts: Locative Prepositional Phrase | p. 43 |
| Locative PP after First Verb | p. 44 |
| Locative PP after Second Verb | p. 46 |
| Consequences of Adverb and PP Placements | p. 49 |
| Object Sharing | p. 50 |
| Evidence for Empty Category: Adverbial Particle | p. 51 |
| Null pro Licensing: Unaccusativity and Transitivity | p. 54 |
| Subject NP | p. 57 |
| Interpretation of Subject and Agent | p. 57 |
| Distribution of Subject Pronoun | p. 62 |
| Subject-oriented Interpretation of 'tobore | p. 57 |
| Phonology-syntax Interface | p. 67 |
| E-head and Relative Tones | p. 68 |
| Wh-extraction and Relative Tones | p. 69 |
| Resultative SVCs, Aspect, and Temporal Adverbs | p. 74 |
| Differences in Aspectual Properties | p. 74 |
| Process-Activity Restriction on First Verb | p. 75 |
| Event Delimiter | p. 77 |
| Temporal Adverbs | p. 79 |
| Conclusion | p. 81 |
| Notes | p. 81 |
| Predicate Cleft and Event Quantification in SVCs and CCs | p. 87 |
| The Edo Predicate Cleft Construction | p. 90 |
| Evidence for Category Conversion | p. 90 |
| The Status of the Derived Nominal | p. 92 |
| Semantic Interpretation | p. 92 |
| Cognate Object as Event Argument | p. 93 |
| The Syntax of Predicate Cleft | p. 95 |
| On Event Quantification | p. 101 |
| Predicate Cleft and SVCs | p. 103 |
| Resultative SVCs | p. 103 |
| Consequential SVCs and CCs | p. 108 |
| Conclusion | p. 113 |
| Notes | p. 114 |
| Double Objects and Object Sharing in SVCs | p. 117 |
| SVCs and the Double Object Construction | p. 117 |
| DOCs and the Associative Construction | p. 118 |
| DOCs in Resultative and Consequential SVCs | p. 123 |
| More On DOCs and SVCs | p. 132 |
| On the Syntax of DOCs | p. 136 |
| The Asymmetry between the Theme and the Goal Objects | p. 136 |
| Double Objects and the Empty Category Principle | p. 138 |
| Underlying vs. Derived Objects | p. 140 |
| Conclusion | p. 143 |
| Notes | p. 143 |
| Comparative Analysis of SVCs and CCs | p. 145 |
| On Structurally Ambiguous SVCs | p. 145 |
| 'Splitting Verbs' and Resultative SVCs | p. 149 |
| IGBO | p. 151 |
| Resultative V-V Compounds | p. 152 |
| Inherent Verb Complement | p. 154 |
| Verb Inflection and Multi-event Constructions | p. 157 |
| (Mandarin) CHINESE | p. 161 |
| Resultative V-V Compounds | p. 162 |
| Multi-event Constructions | p. 163 |
| Conclusion | p. 165 |
| Notes | p. 165 |
| The Serial Verb Construction Parameter | p. 167 |
| Serial Verb Constructions and Secondary Predicates | p. 167 |
| Towards the SVC Parameter: AP vs. VP Resultatives | p. 173 |
| The Serial Verb Construction Parameter | p. 178 |
| The Bare Stem Condition | p. 178 |
| Verb Movement | p. 180 |
| Igbo Resultative V-V Compounds | p. 188 |
| English AP Resultative SPs | p. 192 |
| V -Movement in Consequential SVCs and CCs | p. 193 |
| Consequences of the V-raising Analysis | p. 197 |
| Rule R' and Tense Matching in SVCs | p. 202 |
| Conclusion | p. 204 |
| Notes | p. 204 |
| Re-Analysis of 'Serial Verb Constructions' | p. 207 |
| The Modal-aspectual Verb Construction | p. 208 |
| Contrast with SVCs: INFL vs. E Projection | p. 208 |
| INFL before the Second Verb | p. 210 |
| Evidence for Embedded Clause | p. 211 |
| Modal-aspectual Verb Restriction | p. 217 |
| Restructuring in the Modal-aspectual Verb Construction | p. 218 |
| Evidence for Infinitival Complement | p. 219 |
| Evidence for Restructuring | p. 221 |
| Verb Raising and Object Cleft | p. 222 |
| Predicate Clefts | p. 225 |
| The Class of Restructuring Verbs | p. 231 |
| Syntactic Tests for Restructured Clause | p. 233 |
| There are Two Subject Positions | p. 234 |
| I-type Adverb before First Verb | p. 236 |
| Iterative vs. Imperfective | p. 237 |
| N-type Adverbs as VP Modifier | p. 240 |
| Locative Prepositional phrase | p. 242 |
| On Instrumental Constructions | p. 243 |
| Motivating Subject Control | p. 245 |
| INFL before the Second Verb | p. 246 |
| PRO Subject in Embedded Clause | p. 249 |
| Tobore Particle | p. 249 |
| Purposive Clauses | p. 251 |
| The Syntax of 'use'-type Instrumental Construction | p. 253 |
| I-type Adverb | p. 254 |
| N-type Adverb | p. 256 |
| Locative Prepositional Phrase | p. 257 |
| Predicate Cleft | p. 258 |
| Verb Movement | p. 260 |
| Conclusion | p. 262 |
| Notes | p. 262 |
| SVC Consequences | p. 265 |
| On the Two Types of SVCs and the Covert Coordination | p. 265 |
| Syntactic Structures | p. 266 |
| Lexical Constraints and Argument Sharing | p. 266 |
| The Two Type of SVCs | p. 267 |
| Licensing of Object Sharing | p. 267 |
| Licensing of Subject Sharing | p. 267 |
| On Event Composition | p. 268 |
| Empirical Extensions | p. 268 |
| On the Serial Verb Construction Parameter | p. 269 |
| Other Surface Verb Constructions | p. 271 |
| Closing Thought | p. 272 |
| References | p. 273 |
| Index | p. 283 |
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