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

Substrate influence on the emergence of the TMA systems of the Surinamese creoles

“…These findings confirm those of other researchers such as Essegbey (1999Essegbey ( , 2004, Fabb (1992), Jondoh (1980), Kinyalolo (1992), and Lefebvre & Brousseau (2002). However, there are still strong similarities between the two language groups in several tense/aspect categories which we discuss in more detail below.…”

Aspect and modality in Ewe: A survey

“…This is the reason it is treated separately here. (For a full discussion of the differences between the auxiliary and the main verb forms of vá 'COME' see Essegbey 2004). (21) É-vá vá é-me béná … 3SG-VENT come 3SG-containing.region COMP 'It came to pass that …' Thus far the markers on the verb and the categories and meanings that they express have been surveyed.…”

Auxiliary Verb Constructions (and Other Complex Predicate Types): A Functional–Constructional Overview

“…For formalist approaches to the phenomena, the interested reader is referred to such works as Halle and Marantz (1993), Alsina et al. (1997), Koopman and Szabolcsi (2000), Essegbey (2004), Ameka (2005), the last mentioned work dealing with the multi‐verb formations in West African languages. Within the quasi‐functionalist/formalist Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) framework, see the works of Gazdar et al.…”

“…Thus, it bears specific mention that the present study is explicitly not focused on a formal analysis of complex predicates nor a critique of work approaching this topic from a formalist perspective. For formalist approaches to the phenomena, the interested reader is referred to such works as Halle and Marantz (1993), Alsina et al (1997), Koopman and Szabolcsi (2000), Essegbey (2004), Ameka (2005), the last mentioned work dealing with the multiverb formations in West African languages. Within the quasi-functionalist/formalist Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) framework, see the works of Gazdar et al (1982), Ackerman and Webelhuth (1998), Andrews and Manning (1999); see also Seiss (2009) or Butt (2010) for recent views on the putative difference(s) between 'light verbs', 'co-verb constructions' and 'auxiliaries' and 'serial verbs' (for more on what is meant in the present work by these terms, see below).…”