- In independent serialisation, each verb is marked separately for inflectional morphology. Each verb may take different arguments, and the verbs need not be contiguous. Most often each verb has the same morphological marking, but it is also possible for each to have different marking.
- In dependent serialisation, inflectional morphology is marked only on one verb in the construction; the other verbs are uninflected or have greatly reduced morphology. Again, each verb may take different arguments, and the verbs need not be contiguous; however each verb necessarily has the same marking.
- In complex serialisation, verbs are placed strictly next to each other overriding every other rule. This means that such an SVC effectively becomes a verbal compound: prefixes are applied to the first verb and suffixes are applied to the last verb, and the SVC as a whole will act as if it were a single verb. Naturally, complex SVCs must be contiguous, and will share the same marking.
Due to this diversity, I would be interested to know if any typological studies have been done to investigate the distribution of these different types of SVCs. The closest I know of is the aforementioned paper by van Staden and Reesink; however this paper only covers 12 languages, all from the same area (East Nusantra). If such a paper exists, I would find this sort of broader overview useful to assess the distribution of these various types of SVC (e.g. I’d quite like to know how common it is for languages to have only one type vs many types of serialisation).