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It may not be desirable, even though effective, to study the compound verbs only which have already become glossaries or have strong potential to become words. The purpose of the current study is to reinvestigate various criteria which have been utilized to classify extant compound verbs, newly formed compound verbs, and their word structures, based on analyses of triplet or quartet compound verbs and their innate structures. The analyses showed that while there were differences in expression forms between extant compound verbs and newly created compound verbs in terms of the structures of process-result, there were no differences in the patterns found in the creation process. It was also revealed that triplet and/or quartet compound verbs were also characterized as the combination of both the structures of processes-results and those of non process-result, not just either of them. The current study intended to analyze various linguistic phenomena and approached from the perspective of synchronic linguistics, not to discuss whether triplet and/or quartet compound verbs could be settled as forms of phrases or as grammatical phenomena.