Publisher: Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Date: 1993-1995
Pages: 265
ISBN: 1-88152658-5.
Language:English/Urdu
Constructions variously described as complex predicates, compound verbs, composite predicates,
or serial verbs range across quite an impressive number of differing expressions in differing languages.
The South Asian language Urdu employs a wide variety of complex predicates. I conduct a detailed examination of two differing Urdu complex predicates: the permissive and the Aspectual complex predicates.