The Dumut languages Mandobo, South Wambon and North Wambon are a subgroup of the Awyu-Dumut family. They form a dialect chain that represents stages of the development from clause conjoining with independent verb forms to clause chaining with dependent verb forms that express switch-reference....
The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the World Clause-Chaining, Switch-Reference and Action/Event Continuity in Japanese Discourse: The Case of Te, To and Zero-Conjunction On the grammaticalization of ( ’t) schijnt ‘it seems’ as an evidential particle in colloquial ...
Hundreds of languages worldwide use a sentence structure known as the "clause chain," in which 20 or more clauses can be stacked to form a sentence. The Papuan language Nungon is among a subset of clause chaining languages that require "switch-reference" suffixes on nonfinal verbs in ...