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compound:svc: serial verb construction

In this type of construction, several verbs are combined to describe the same action. The verbs in a serial verb construction share the same subject but not necessarily the same object.

The compound:svc relation is used in Spanish Sign Language only for sequences

a) expressing a cause-consequence relation;

b) consecutive actions expressed through descriptive predicates (or verb lexeme + descriptive predicate);

c) instances of general + specific action (this last expressed by a descriptive predicate).


compound:svc in other languages: [hy] [ky] [ml] [mr] [pa] [pcm] [ssp] [swl] [u] [vi]
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