Editing Serial verb construction (section)

{{Short description|Construction of verb compounds in some languages}}
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The '''serial verb construction''', also known as '''(verb) serialization''' or '''verb stacking''', is a [[syntax|syntactic]] phenomenon in which two or more [[verb]]s or [[verb phrase]]s are strung together in a single [[clause]].<ref name="Tallerman">{{Cite book |last=Tallerman |first=Maggie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QmPBDwAAQBAJ&q=Serial+verb+bare |title=Understanding Syntax |date=2019-12-06 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-51674-0 |language=en}}</ref> It is a common feature of many [[African languages|African]], [[Asian languages|Asian]] and [[languages of Papua New Guinea|New Guinean]] languages. Serial verb constructions are often described as coding a single event;<ref name="Aikhenvald">Aikhenvald, A. and Dixon, R.M.W. (2005). ''Serial Verb Constructions: A cross-linguistic typology''. Oxford: Oxford University Press</ref><ref name="Lord">Lord, C. (1991). ''Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins</ref> they can also be used to indicate concurrent or causally-related events.