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compound:svc: serial verb compounds

In compound verb (or verb-verb concatenation) constructions, an aspectual light verb which takes the full range of inflections modifies the TAM of the main semantic verb. The main verb, which has all the content, is the head. Auxiliaries also attach to the main verb.

ਉਸਨੇ ਖਾ ਲਿਆ ਹੈ \n he eat took is
compound:svc(ਖਾ, ਲਿਆ)
compound:svc(eat, took)
aux(ਖਾ, ਹੈ)
aux(eat, is)

compound:svc in other languages: [hy] [ky] [ml] [mr] [pa] [pcm] [swl] [u] [vi]