The difference between "giving a rose" and "giving a kiss": Sustained neural activity to the light verb construction. [PDF]
J Mem Lang, 2014 Wittenberg E +4 more
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Investigating Thematic Roles through Implicit Learning: Evidence from Light Verb Constructions. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2017 Wittenberg E, Khan M, Snedeker J.
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Funktionsverbgefüge als Ausdruck von Höflichkeit in geschäftlicher Korrespondenz / Light-Verb Constructions as an Expression of Politeness in Business Correspondence [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2020 Funktionsverbgefüge (Helbig 1977) sind komplexe Mehrworteinheiten, die aus einem semantisch ver-blassten Verb und einem Substantiv bestehen, z. B. Entscheidung treffen oder einen Antrag stellen.
Łukasz Piątkowski
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Diachronic pertinacity of light verbs [PDF]
Lingua, 2013 We contrast the historical data with respect to light verbs and auxiliaries in Indo-Aryan and show that light verbs are comparatively stable and unlikely to be subject to reanalysis or restructuring. We propose that there is a very tight connection between a light verb and its corresponding main verb, and that this connection differs markedly from the ...
Miriam Butt, Aditi Lahiri
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Optional valency complementations in Czech light verb constructions [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2021 This paper addresses Czech light verb constructions, partly revising principles of their syntactic structure formation formulated within the Functional Generative Description.
Václava Kettnerová
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A Corpus of Light Verb Constructions in Persian [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2022 A linguistic corpus is a collection of linguistic data derived from language texts, which represent the real patterns of language use to the researchers.
Mahdie Eshaghi +1 more
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Construction Grammar and Latin: The case of habeo
Pallas, 2016 The aim of this paper is to extend the notion of light verbs to all the constructions in which a semantically ‘light’ verb is involved. Light verb constructions occur not only when the verb takes a noun in the accusative (V + NP[+acc]), but also when the
Anna Pompei
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Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2016 Despite having always being a central subject-matter in linguistics due to their controversial syntactico-semantic and pragmatic status, the pragmatic dimension of English cognate object constructions of the type He died a gruesome death and She smiled ...
Beatriz Rodríguez Arrizabalaga
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First Phase Syntax of Persian Complex Predicates: Argument Structure and Telicity
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008 In this paper, I propose an analysis of Persian complex predicates, based on the First Phase Verbal syntax developed by Ramchand (2008). I suggest that the light verbs lexicalize the subevent heads into which the verbal phrase is decomposed, while the ...
Marina Pantcheva
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Topologische Eigenschaften der Funktionsverbgefüge im heutigen Deutsch
Studia Linguistica, 2023 Light verb constructions (German Funktionsverbgefüge = FVGs) are complex predicates consisting of a semantically light verb, which has lost its lexical meaning and just has a functional role, and a noun phrase (with or without preposition).
Ireneusz Gaworski
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