Serial verbs in English

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This article shows that catenative verb constructions in English, such as "Mary stopped crying" or "Sam helped run the tournament" have all of the semantic and syntactic characteristics of serial verb constructions found in non-IndoEuropean languages. But this demonstration only works if one uses a Role and Reference Grammar analysis.

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This article also shows that catenative verb constructions in English cannot be counted as serial verb constructions if one uses a generative grammar analysis, as the basic architecture of this theoretical approach excludes this comparison.

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