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The paper describes two complex verbal constructions in Hindi-Urdu that share many properties with serial verbs described in [Aikhenvald 2006]: they are monoclausal, have common grammatical values, each component of them may occur on its own, there are no overt markers of coordination, subordination, or any sort of syntactic dependency between the parts of verbal sequences, components cannot be negated or questioned separately from the whole construction, verbal sequences share prosodic properties with monoverbal constructions. The first verbal complex (usually referred to as ‘compound verb’) consists of the main verb conveying the basic meaning and the so called ‘vector’or ‘polar’, or ‘light’ verb). The second type of verbal constructions that are discussed here consists of two verbs which fully preserve their semantic properties. Unlike the compound verbs discussed above, these verbal sequences have not received adequate attention in literature