contiguity of serial verbs (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample ĕn loh chièu reng rŭp bùh cha chŏ̀'wan
Definition alternative strategies found with serial verb and auxiliary constructions, whether they are contiguous or not. Example: in Jeh ĕn loh chièu reng rŭp bùh cha chŏ̀'wan He went out and got somebody's pig and roasted and ate it, the serial verbs loh chièu reng rŭp bùh cha [exit go search catch roast eat] are all contiguous. Another alternative contiguity strategy in auxiliary constructions is to position the auxiliary in a fixed position in the clause, typically second position, rather than relative to the position of the verb in the auxiliary construction. (Sections 13.2, 13.3.2)
See section (in Croft 2022) 13.2
See section (in Croft 2022) 13.3.2
expressionOf auxiliary construction
expressionOf eventive complex predicate
Subtype of serial verb strategy

Source

The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).

Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).

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