10. Verbs

Chapters in this book

1. I-XXIV I
2. 1. Introduction 1
3. 2. Overview of the phonology 15
4. Part I Functional categories
5. 3. Functional categories involved in the nominal structure 37
6. 4. Pronominal forms 61
7. 5. Tense, mood and aspect 85
8. 6. Functional categories involved in the structure of the clause 113
9. 7. Clause structures 143
10. Part II Lexical categories
11. 8. Morphology 183
12. 9. Compounds 221
13. 10. Verbs 235
14. 11. Prepositions and postpositions 299
15. 12. Modifiers 347
16. Part III The major syntactic constructions of the language
17. 13. Serial verbs 399
18. 14. The double object construction 445
19. 15. The definite determiner in simple clauses 481
20. 16. The so-called verb-doubling phenomena 503
21. Appendices
22. Appendix I: Swadesh list 533
23. Appendix II: Text 539
24. Appendix III: Additional data on d̨ɔ́ introducing complements of verbs of the SAY-class 543
25. Appendix IV: A sample of idiomatic verbal expressions 547
26. References 549
27. Index of authors 573
28. Index of subjects 577