This study made the definition reflecting language universals on the Chinese serial verb constructions and set the range of the Chinese serial verb constructions. Serial verb constructions have generally been considered to be simple sentences with a continuous event of verbs, but there have been many controversies and disagreements about the definition and range of serial verb constructions. In this paper, we discuss the definition of the Chinese serial verb constructions based on Haspelmath (2016) and Zhu Dexi(1982). And then try to grasp the extent to which it belongs. Finally, we examined the degree of cross-linguistic universal of Chinese serial verb constructions in terms of the type of argument - semantic role and 10 universals which were proposed by Haspelmath (2016).