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| Language | Question | Subquestion | Color | Parameter | Value | Preference |
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| Akan | 55 | present | 1 | |||
| Bwamu | 55 | present | 1 | NA | ||
| Ninkaré | 55 | present | 1 | NA | ||
| Linxia Chinese | 55 | present | 1 | |||
| Huarong Chinese | 55 | present | 1 | |||
| Indonesian | 55 | present | 1 | NA | ||
| Jejueo | 55 | present | 1 | NA | ||
| Kangle Chinese | 55 | present | 1 | |||
| Standard Mandarin | 55 | present | 1 | NA | ||
| Mooré | 55 | present | 1 | |||
| Kannada | 55 | present | 1 | |||
| Polish | 55 | present | 1 | |||
| Thai | 55 | present | 1 | NA | ||
| Vietnamese | 55 | present | 1 | NA |
(55) Are there serial verb constructions?
Alternatives to be checked: yes / no; if yes, please add examples
Mandarin
wǒ zuò chē qù mǎi shū.
1SG sit car go buy book
'I take a bus to go and buy books.'
Explanation: Working definition of serial verb construction: 'a monoclausal series consisting of multiple independent verbs with no element linking them and with no predicate argument relation between the verbs' (Haspelmath)
Background: There might be a correlation with V-O order.