Re: Inchoactive in Jpn? (was: "Anticipatory" Tense)

In a message dated 2002.03.08 04.45.31 AM, suomenkieli@YAHOO.COM writes:

>Speaking of Chinese, is such a trait common with the
>verbals? (ie, do you also tend to place 2 verbs
>together to produce a new meaning, to the degree JPN
>does...  _omou > omoi_ "think", _dasu_ "put out, take
>out, bring out", _omoidasu_ "recall")
>
    AFAIK, yepyep!, Serial verbs are used to emphasize certain aspects of an
action or state. (BTW a lot of pidgins and creoles also use serial verb
constructions in very similar fashion, even to the point of reduplication of
the verb).


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