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PROJECT TOPIC: SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTION IN ỌRỌ

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CHAPTER ONE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

1.1       Introduction

A serial verb construction (SVC) is a sequence of verbs which act together as a single predicate, without any overt marker of coordination, subordination, or syntactic dependency of any other sort. Serial verb constructions describe what is conceptualized as a single event. They are monoclausal; their intonational properties are the same as those of a monoverbal clause, and they have just one tense, aspect, and polarity value.

SVCs may also share core argument and also other arguments. Each component of an SVC must be able to occur on its own. Within an SVC, the individual verbs may have same or different transitivity values.

Serial verb construction is a topic in syntax that has to do with the combination of verbs, verbs in series, and stringing of verbs. SVCs largely conform to both the cross linguistic prototype and narrower definitions. SVCs are syntactic constructions where multiple verbs occur in a single clause with no coordination or subordination.

There is considerable cross linguistic variation in the properties of constructions referred to as SVCs. Serial verb construction can also be said to be a sequence of verbs acting together as a single predicate without any conjunction or an overt marker of coordination, subordinate, or syntactic dependency. Verb as the core of SVC can be referred to as a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

A verb also expresses an agreement with the subject, tense, mood and aspect. Evaluations of whether SVCs refer to single events have relied on five methods: intuition, translation, intonation, cultural restrictions, and the scope of temporal modifiers.  Serial verb constructions are common in many languages in west Africa, Southeast Asia, Amazonia, Oceania, Papua, and New Guinea. The verbs in SVC share a common factor and sometimes a common object and they occur in juxtaposition with no intervening conjunctions. In the cause of this study, efforts will be made to show the types of serial verb constructions in Oro language with relevant data.


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