SERIALIZATION AS COGNITIVE UNIVERSAL (SLAVONIC AND IRANIAN DATA)

Abstract

Serialization is regarded as a phenomenon in which two or more verbs, or some other part of speech, follow each other in a sentence in the same aspect and tense form; the subject and the object in such constructions is only expressed in the first verb. The phenomenon is typical for the so called “exotic” languages in different parts of the world. Our results demonstrate the existence of two-verb and three-verb chains in modern colloquial Persian, as well as past participle chains in modern written Persian