Abstrakt
This workshop is bringing together researchers who deal with multiverb constructions in different languages of the world. The common goal is to shed light on certain entrenched concepts such as serial verb constructions, auxiliaries or light verbs, and discuss to what extent they are useful as adequate descriptive categories for the grammars of individual languages on the one hand, and as meaningful typological comparative concepts on the other.
Do they exhaustively and appropriately account for the cross-linguistic variability? Or should a more efficient set of categories be proposed? Among the crucial issues to be raised is the nature of the proposed categories: are they not better perceived as scalar than discrete? What is the synchronic relationship between the categories, i.e. how to deal with verbs which can appear in different roles? What is the diachronic relationship between them?