When Verbs Collide: Papers from the Ohio State Mini-Conference on Serial Verbs (Columbus, Ohio, May 26-27, 1990). Working Papers in Linguistics No. 39.

Papers from the conference on the occurrence of verbal constituents in series in certain languages, particularly pidgins and creoles, include the following: "What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Serial Verbs?" (Arnold M. Zwicky); "Serial Verb Constructions" (Pieter Seuren); "On the Definition and Distribution of Serial Verb Constructions" (Eric Schiller); "Parataxis in White Hmong" (Elizabeth Riddle); "On Arguing for Serial Verbs (with Special Reference to Modern Greek)" (Brian D. Joseph); "Serialization and Subordination in Gullah: Toward a Definition of Serialization" (Salikoko Mufwene); "Serial Verb Constructions and Motion Events in Caribbean English Creoles" (Don Winford); "Tense Marking in Serial Structures" (Francis Byrne); "Serial Verb Construction in Marathi" (Rajeshwari Pandharipande); "Tamil Serial Verbs" (Sabita Nagarajan); "Constraints on Intransitive Quasi-Serial Verb Constructions in Modern Colloquial English" (Geoffrey K. Pullum); "Serial vs. Consecutive Verbs in Walapai" (James E. Redden); "Suffixal Concatenation in the Classical Japanese Predicate: Erstwhile Serial Verbs?" (Charles Quinn); "Multi-Verb Constructions in Korean" (In-Hee Jo); "On Serial Verbs in Mandarin Chinese: VV Compounds and Co-Verbial Phrases" (Claire Hsun-huei Chang); "Syntactic Constructions in Serial Verb Expressions in Chinese" (John Xiang-ling Dai); "Serial Verbs in Colloquial Arabic" (Lutfi Hussein); and "Serial Verb Constructions in Categorial Grammar" (Katherine Welker). (MSE)