The present article argues that Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in North-West Semitic
(NWS) languages have emerged from clause fusion. The analysis of the synchronic profiles …

This paper investigates the properties of GO and TAKE used as functional verbs to express
the beginning of an action or a state (inchoativity) or a sense of surprise, wonder …

This paper discusses the preliminary results of an online acceptability judgments
questionnaire on some Bulgarian verbal periphrases featuring the functional verb vzemam …

Campanian dialects such as Neapolitan feature a so-called'second form of the
infinitive'(SFI), a form consisting of the bare verbal stem, which can be used after functional …

This talk is about a complex verbal construction in Sicilian, known from the previous
literature as (Doubly) Inflected Construction (Cardinaletti and Giusti 2001, 2003; Cruschina …

The verb TAKE is used in a number of periphrastic constructions where it can serve different
purposes, cross-linguistically. In many European languages, it is found in different …