ComPLETE database

The ComPLETE database was developed as part of the joint French-German research project ComPLETE (Complex Predicates in Languages: Emergence, Typology, and Evolution). Its aim has been to provide a typological resource to study verbal complex predicates (VCPs) across a wide range of language families, with the current version focusing primarily on languages from Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. This bottom-up database includes traditional categories such as serial verbs, light verbs, converbs, and auxiliary verbs. Contributors were asked to describe individual VCP constructions by responding to a set of 20 questions, organized under seven parameters.