Motion expressions and serial verb constructions 0136-Motion expressions and serial verb constructions A description and documentation of Avatime

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natural language processing

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MatSas

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Elicitation session with Mathias, looking into motion expressions and serial verb constructions. Annotated in ELAN by Saskia. Saskia tried out some Avatime sentences on Mathias to see if they are grammatical and if so what they mean. She also asked him to translate some English sentences to Avatime. The sentences were all descriptions of motion events, the goal was looking into the properties of motion serial verb constructions. Saskia asked questions in English or Avatime, Mathias answered in Avatime. Language_Name: Avatime Language_Region: Africa Language_Country: Ghana Project_Status: Complete Year: 2008 Start_Date: 2008-05-01 End_Date: 2008-12-31

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ON SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS

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