Serial Verbs in White Hmong

Product Description
In this book, Nerida Jarkey investigates the highly productive strategy of verb serialisation and reveals that its key function in this dynamic Southeast Asian language is to depict a single event in an elaborate and vivid way.
About the Author
Nerida Jarkey, Ph.D. (1991), University of Sydney, is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at that university. She has published articles on Japanese and White Hmong on topics including complex predicates, complementation, transitivity, and language and identity.