“…That is, they are semantically compatible and the meaning of the SVC is transparent from the constituent verbs. Matukar SVCs are contained within a single clause, verbs share TAM information, there is no marker of coordination, subordination or dependency of any kind, they describe a single event and they share core arguments (Aikhenvald, 2018;Bisang, 1995;Crowley, 2002;Durie, 1988;Haspelmath, 2016). In this way Matukar represents a typical Oceanic language, as SVCs are widespread across Oceanic languages (Crowley, 1987;Early, 1993;Hamel, 1993;Naess, 2011;Sperlich, 1993;Schokkin, 2013 inter alia).…”