a strategy for expressing an eventive complex predicate with two (or more) elements, each expressing an event, without overt coding of the relation between the two elements via a third linking morpheme. The serial verb strategy – that is, expression of an eventive complex predicate without an overt linking morpheme – combines with strategies for expressing the two event elements involving contiguity, incorporation, and locus of inflection. Example: Sranan Kofi naki Amba kiri 'Kofi killed [lit. [lit. 'hit kill'] Amba'] contains two event elements, naki 'hit' and kiri 'kill', without any linking morpheme. (Section 13.2.2)