Walking out of the light verb jungle: Exploring the translation strategies of light verb constructions in Chinese–English consecutive interpreting [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Cross-linguistic features of light verb constructions (LVCs) profile a major facet of the typological difference between Chinese and English. By adopting a theory-driven, context-based interpreting task, this study explores the effectiveness and ...
Di Wang, Guiying Jiang, Yufan Zheng
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Basque light verb constructions
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2006 -
Bernard Oyharçabal
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Processing ergativity in compound light verb constructions: electrophysiological evidence from Hindi [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceIntroductionErgativity marks subject arguments as agents of a transitive event and thereby signals verbal transitivity and influences language comprehension.MethodWe report here on an event-related brain potentials (ERP) study in Hindi, in which we ...
Anna Merin Mathew +4 more
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Structure Influences Case Processing: Electrophysiological Insights from Hindi Light Verb Constructions [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: Case marking serves as a crucial cue in sentence processing, enabling the prediction of upcoming arguments, thematic roles, and event structure.
Anna Merin Mathew +3 more
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Light Verbs and Grammaticalization. Evidence From the Catalan Light Verb “Agafar”
Catalan Journal of LinguisticsDetermining the linguistic nature of light verbs – whether they are lexical or grammatical units – is still an open question. Light verbs are often characterised as delexicalized.
Jordi Ginebra
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Assigning meaning to light verbs in Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 Light verb constructions (e.g., give a kiss to somebody) syntactically reflect typical ditransitive structures (e.g., give a violin to somebody) yet it is not clear whether these two structures thematically similar as well.
Duygu ÖZGE +2 more
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Light Verb just as a Little v*
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002 In this paper I argue that the light verb ha in Korean is an overt realization of the v head. Ha/ci alternation in Korean psych verbs makes a strong case for DO/BECOME meanings of v, whose semantic contribution is undetermined and contextualized in ...
Jung, Dukkyo
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Light verb constructions vs. preverbal verbs in Looma [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceWhen dealing with light verb constructions (LVCs) in a particular language, one of the most intriguing problems is the status of nouns forming part of them. Do they differ from “normal” NPs, and if so, in what exactly?
Mishchenko, Daria
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The difference between “giving a rose” and “giving a kiss”: Sustained neural activity to the light verb construction [PDF]
Journal of Memory and Language, 2014 Eva Wittenberg +2 more
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The Endless Story of “Compound Verbs”: An Introduction to Conceptology and Terminology of Complex Verbs in Persian [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 Much of the literature about Persian ‘compound verbs’ has been concerned with their ‘true’ instances. About four centuries after identification of this construction, however, there is yet little agreement on any single definition or conception of it ...
Mojtaba Monshizadeh +2 more
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