The syntactical characteristic of Sasak serial verb constructions that explains above has similarity with the characteristics of serial verb constructions cross-
linguistically. Aikhenvald 2006: 8 stated that serial verb construction shares aspect as seen in clauses 79 and 80; mood as seen in clauses 81, and 82. I also found that it
shares negation as well as aspect and mood, as seen in clauses 83 and 84.
4.2.5. Sasak serial verb constructions share the same arguments
Serial verb constructions prototypically share at least one argument. A serial verb construction with no share arguments is rare, but not non-existent Aikenvald, 2006:
12. Sasak serial verb constructions form a single clause or mono-clause with the same arguments, as seen in the following examples:
85
Kakaq nge-runguq Ariq ngutak ngoron.
sister take.care brother N.vomit N.more.vomit ‘Sister has give medicine to cure the airsickness of his brother.’
86
Lelah laloq nie lalo ngater side nge-rampek.
A very 3-S go send.food 2-S harvest ‘SHe’s so tired of sending you food while harvesting.’
In clause 85, the constituent Kakaq ‘Sister’ has function as SUBJ only, while
the constituent Ariq ‘Brother’ has two functions which are as OBJ in matrix clause and
as SUBJ in subordinate clause. This clause is co-dependent serial verb construction in which a shared argument and the parts of the construction depend on each other. The
OBJ of the first clause Ariq ‘Brother’ is the SUBJ of the second clause. This serial verb
construction has three serial verbs ngerunguq ‘give attention’, ngutaq ‘vomit’, and
ngoron ‘vomit so hard’.
In clause 86, the constituent Nie ‘SHe’ has function as SUBJ only, while the
constituent Side ‘You’ has two functions which are as OBJ in matrix clause and as
SUBJ in subordinate clause. This clause is co-dependent serial verb construction in
