@article{Ameka_Essegbey_2013, title={Serialising languages: Satellite-framed, verb-framed or neither}, volume={2}, url={https://laghana.org/gjl/index.php/gjl/article/view/34}, DOI={10.4314/gjl.v2i1.34}, abstractNote={<span>The diversity in the coding of the core schema of motion, i.e., Path, has led to a traditional typology of languages into verb-framed and satellite-framed languages. In the former Path is encoded in verbs and in the latter it is encoded in non-verb elements that function as sisters to co-event expressing verbs such as manner verbs. Verb serializing languages pose a challenge to this typology as they express Path as well as the Co-event of manner in finite verbs that together function as a single predicate in translational motion clause. We argue that these languages do not fit in the typology and constitute a type of their own. We draw on data from Akan and Frog story narrations in Ewe, a Kwa language, and Sranan, a Caribbean Creole with Gbe substrate, to show that in terms of discourse properties verb serializing languages behave like Verb-framed with respect to some properties and like Satellite-framed languages in terms of others. This study fed into the revision of the typology and such languages are now said to be equipollently-framed languages</span>}, number={1}, journal={Ghana Journal of Linguistics}, author={Ameka, Felix K. and Essegbey, James}, year={2013}, month={Jul.}, pages={19–38} }