DOCITMENT =UNE ED 335 878 FL 019 331 AUTHOR Dooley, Robert A. TITLE A Double-Verb Construction in Mbya Guarani. PUB DATE 91 NOTE 37p.; In: Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, Volume 35, p31-66, 1991; see FL 019 329. PUB TYPE Speeches/Conference Papers (150) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESPRIPTORS Contrastive Linguistics; Grammar; *Guarani; *Language Patterns; Language Research; Linguistic Theory; Morphology (Languages); Phonology; Semantics; Stress (PhonologY); Syntax; *Uncommonly Taught Languages; *Verbs ABSTRACT The double,rerb construction in Mbya Guarani is described. In this construction, the second verb (V2) has a distinctive morphology. It is concluded that the construction, examined from several viewpoints (lexico-semantic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic) is a phrase in which V2 functions as a modifier of V1, and that is different from other constructions in the language, such as clause subordination and verbal coordination. On the other hana, it is seen to have much in common with serial verr, constructions documented for the languages of West Africa, the Caribbean, East and Southeast Asia, and Papua New Guinea. A 24-item bibliography is included. (MSE) * ******************************************************************1 ** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. *