ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on verbs in the French creoles. After a brief outline of the typology of verbs in English and French, it concentrates on different types of verbs in the French creoles including transitive, ditransitive, unaccusative, unergative, ergative, complex-transitive, raising, control, existential, causative, and serial verbs. It will become clear that the French creoles have inherited not only a large part of the French inventory of verbs but also their argument structures. Two interesting types of verbal constructions are also discussed, namely double object constructions and serial verb constructions, neither of which exists in the lexifi er language.
