When verbs ‘stay (and) go’ together: Pseudo-coordination in Juǀ’hoan and ǃXun

Multi-verb constructions are an areal feature of Kalahari Basin Area languages (“Khoisan”), a Sprachbund comprising the Kx’a, Tuu, and Khoe-Kwadi families. Presently, these characterised by two distinct multi-verb with specific distributions: strictly contiguous serial verb in Kx’a Tuu correspond to involving morphophonological linker, or “juncture”, Khoe-Kwadi. This paper describes additional construction, namely pseudo-coordination. Drawing on corpus spontaneous discourse data, this demonstrates rise pseudo-coordination from biclausal construction Juǀ’hoan ǃXun (Ju, Kx’a). The comparative analysis highlights verbs that typically arise context resulting functions. polygrammaticalisation pseudo-coordination, including other constructions.