Abstract
Abstract Wolaitta, an Omotic (Afroasiatic) language spoken by approximately 12 million people in southwestern Ethiopia, has a restricted class of compound verbs with just two components, Vj + V2, where Vj is a (same-subject) converb, while V2 is a fully inflected verb. Vj can be any verb in the language, but V2 belongs to a closed class of (about fourteen) verbs. Such compound verbs are distinct from regular converb + main verb or clause-chaining constructions. With the latter, the converb is clearly a subordinate clause describing an anterior, sequential, or simultaneous event to that described by the main clause. With compound verbs, however, the converb plus main verb describe a single event, including, in some cases, the manner in which some action takes place, or the duration of the action expressed.
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