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serial verb construction

A sequences of verbs without any overt marker of coordination, subordination, or syntactic dependency of any sort, and describing what is conceptualized as a single event. (Based on Aikhenvald, Serial Verbs, Oxford Bibliographies 2018)

A serial verb construction is ambiguous if it is simultaneously true and false for its different interpretations relative to the same state of affairs. (Chan, 1996)
In Mandarin it is suggested that serial verb constructions are typically headed by the second verb because the first verb tends to be the component that "carries information such as location manner/instrument comitative and condition which is usually represented by adjuncts in a language" (Huang and Lin 2012). (Khoo & Lin, 2018)
Serial verb construction is a phenomenon occurring in Chinese where several verbs are put together as one unit without any conjunction between them. (Han, Sudoh, Wu, Duh, Tsukada & Nagata, 2012)
SVC involves verb-noun combinations where the noun serves as the main predicative element and the verb conveys grammatical values. (Bico, Cardeira, Baptista & Baptista, 2024)
We explain the most relevant syntactic and morphological features of Saraiki along with the decision we have made for a range of language specific constructions namely compounds verbal structures including light verb and serial verb constructions along with different types of relative clauses. (Alam, Tyers, Hanink & Kübler, 2024)

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