Auxiliaries in serialising languages: On COME and GO verbs in Sranan and Ewe

Lingua

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 473-494

  Essegbey, James ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auxiliation; Deixis; Ewe; Grammaticalization; Serialising languages; Sranan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742271642     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(03)00069-X     Document Type: Article

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