Baker, Mark (Supervisor) This thesis investigates Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) where two or more
Yoruba has a set of bisyllabic verbs that obligatorily split around a direct object, as in Adé ba ilé nàá jé, meaning ‘Adé destroyed the house’, where both ba and jé make up the verb for destroy. These are called “splitting verbs” and have previ- ously been analyze
Mambwe language is said to be from the ancestor language, the Fipa in Southern Tanzania. Guthrie (19