ABSTRACT
The serial verb construction (SVC) is one of the better studied phenomena associated with West African linguistics (cf. Christaller 1875, Westerman 1930, Ansre 1966, Bamgbose 1974, Sebba 1987, Baker 1989, 1991, Lefebvre 1991, Awoyale 1987, 1988, Manfredi 1991, Déchaine 1993, Collins 1997, Campbell 1989, Joseph and Zwicky 1990, Bodomo 1993, Cormack and Neil 1994, etc.). 1 However, in spite of over one century of grammatical analysis the SVC is still an ill-defined and often misinterpreted phenomenon. The following are typical examples from the Ẹ̀dó language of the sort of things that are often called SVCs: 2
