The verb suffixed with the perfective marker le or the experiential marker guo is often treated as the head of a construction, both syntactically and semantically, as in (4) (Li, 1991).
as for the verb that is suffixed with the durative marker zhe in an SVC, we argue that the VP containing the verb functions as an adverbial to modify the other VP (unless the verb in the other VP is also suffixed with zhe) (cf.