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On Light Verb Constructions in English
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Light Verb Constructions as Complex Verbs
2023The notion of light verb constructions has been traditionally related to the ‘insignificance’ of the verb, which is described as a grammatical item only codifying TAM system and φ-features, whereas the whole predicative content is thought to be conveyed by the noun.
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Annotation and Classification of Light Verbs and Light Verb Variations in Mandarin Chinese
Proceedings of Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing, 2014Light verbs pose an a challenge in linguistics because of its syntactic and semantic versatility and its unique distribution different from regular verbs with higher semantic content and selectional resrictions. Due to its light grammatical content, earlier natural language processing studies typically put light verbs in a stop word list and ignore ...
Jingxia Lin +3 more
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The emergence of light verb constructions
Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2021AbstractThis paper takes a data-driven perspective on the grammaticalization of German light verb constructions (LVCs) withkommen‘come’. LVCs are complex predicates consisting of a semantically light verb and an eventive noun realized within a phrasal complement, e.g. Germanzur Vollendung kommen, lit. ‘come into completion’.
Stefan Hartmann, Jens Fleischhauer
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2021
This chapter focuses on a light verb construction (LVC) from both Portuguese and Spanish, dar conselho/consejo (“to give advice”). The chapter provides an overview of the literature both on the concept of light verbs and, in particular, on the syntactic and semantic analyses put forward by previous literature on Portuguese and Spanish.
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This chapter focuses on a light verb construction (LVC) from both Portuguese and Spanish, dar conselho/consejo (“to give advice”). The chapter provides an overview of the literature both on the concept of light verbs and, in particular, on the syntactic and semantic analyses put forward by previous literature on Portuguese and Spanish.
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Language Sciences, 2001
Abstract Much current work on complex predicates proposes that the light verbs which head these constructions do not contribute to the thematic role inventory of the complex predicate. They are assumed not to have lexical semantic content; therefore, the semantic relationship between the light verb and its “heavy” or main-verb counterpart is often ...
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Abstract Much current work on complex predicates proposes that the light verbs which head these constructions do not contribute to the thematic role inventory of the complex predicate. They are assumed not to have lexical semantic content; therefore, the semantic relationship between the light verb and its “heavy” or main-verb counterpart is often ...
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Linguistic Inquiry, 2001
Selon Kitahara (1997), les categories fonctionnelles seraient motivees grammaticalement par les donnees resultant de la forme phonetique et/ou de la forme logique ou de maniere interne a la theorie, excepte les verbes supports qui seraient uniquement motives de maniere interne a la theorie. L'A.
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Selon Kitahara (1997), les categories fonctionnelles seraient motivees grammaticalement par les donnees resultant de la forme phonetique et/ou de la forme logique ou de maniere interne a la theorie, excepte les verbes supports qui seraient uniquement motives de maniere interne a la theorie. L'A.
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The Ordering of Mandarin Chinese Light Verbs
2013Two or more light verbs are sometimes found to co-occur in both Taiwan and Mainland Mandarin Chinese, e.g., jiāyǐ and jinxing in dui xueshēng jiāyǐ jinxing yǐndǎo 'to guide students', and a particular ordering is often preferred, e.g., jiāyǐ jinxing over jinxing jiāyǐ.
Chu-Ren Huang, Jingxia Lin
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Honorification and light verbs in Japanese
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2007This paper deals with the syntactic structure of subject-honorific and object-honorific constructions in Japanese through a detailed examination of the morphological make-up of the so-called honorific form of verbs. The main claim is that the honorific form of verbs actually consists of separate morphemes, which include honorific prefixes, verb stems ...
Adrian Ivana, Hiromu Sakai
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