Serial Verbs in White Hmong

A technical linguistic study of one of White Hmong's most distinctive grammatical strategies: stringing verbs together so that a sequence describes a single event rather than several. Nerida Jarkey shows that serialisation is not an ornament but central to how the language construes what happens. This is the only book-length grammar study on the shelf and it is written for linguists, with glossed examples and formal argument throughout. For a learner it is the wrong book; for anyone who has wondered why Hmong sentences resist word-by-word translation into English, it is the explanation. For linguists, graduate students, and serious language learners past the intermediate stage.