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. hit kill] Amba contains two event elements, naki hit and kiri kill, without any linking morpheme. (Section 13.2.2)