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Light verb production in healthy ageing and dementia.
International journal of language and communication disorders, 2022BACKGROUND Light verbs are highly frequent and semantically impoverished words. It is currently not known whether light verb production in discourse tasks differs by age or for people with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). AIMS The purpose of the
Stephen Kintz, H. Wright
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Précis of Take a Look at This! Form, Function, and Productivity of English Light Verb Constructions
Colorado Research in Linguistics, 2021English light verb constructions (LVCs), such as make an offer and take a bath, are semi-productive constructions: while some novel combinations of a light verb and eventive or stative noun are acceptable, others are not.
C. Bonial
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Nativised structural patterns of make light verb construction in Malaysian English
Concentric. Studies in Linguistics, 2021This study investigated nativised structural patterns of light verb constructions (LVCs) in Malaysian English using a corpus-based, descriptive approach to analyse grammatical innovations. To facilitate the analysis, a 100-million-word general corpus
C. Ong, Hajar Abdul Rahim
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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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Adverbial and attributive modification of Persian separable light verb constructions
Journal of Linguistics, 2020Persian makes extensive use of light verb constructions (LVCs) consisting of a non-verbal preverb and a semantically light verbal element. The current paper concentrates on LVCs with nominal preverbs (e.g. sedâ dâdan ‘produce a sound’, lit. ‘sound give’)
Jens Fleischhauer, M. Neisani
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Studia Neophilologica, 2019
This paper provides a qualitative and quantitative analysis of syntactic and semantic factors present in light verb constructions as compared to the use of verbal simplexes in order to determine predictors for light verb use.
Patricia Ronan
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This paper provides a qualitative and quantitative analysis of syntactic and semantic factors present in light verb constructions as compared to the use of verbal simplexes in order to determine predictors for light verb use.
Patricia Ronan
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Deriving the meaning of light verb constructions – a frame account of German stehen ‘stand’
Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2019In this paper, we present a case study of German light verb constructions (LVCs) with the posture verb stehen ‘stand’ which builds on the insights of different works dealing with non-light uses of posture verbs.
Thomas Gamerschlag
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, 2020
Light verb constructions (LVCs) in English and Romance languages are somewhat unique crosslinguistically because LVCs in these languages tend to have semantically similar synthetic verb counterparts (Zarco 1999): e.g. make an appearance and appear.
C. Bonial, Kimberly A. Pollard
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Light verb constructions (LVCs) in English and Romance languages are somewhat unique crosslinguistically because LVCs in these languages tend to have semantically similar synthetic verb counterparts (Zarco 1999): e.g. make an appearance and appear.
C. Bonial, Kimberly A. Pollard
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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2020
This article presents a classification and clustering based study to account for the differences among five Chinese light verbs (congshi, gao, jiayi, jinxing, and zuo) as well as their variations in Mainland China Mandarin (ML) and Taiwan Mandarin (TW ...
Hongzhi Xu +3 more
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This article presents a classification and clustering based study to account for the differences among five Chinese light verbs (congshi, gao, jiayi, jinxing, and zuo) as well as their variations in Mainland China Mandarin (ML) and Taiwan Mandarin (TW ...
Hongzhi Xu +3 more
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Productivity, richness, and diversity of light verb constructions in the history of American English
, 2020This study provides an empirical analysis of productivity in Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) in the history of American English. LVCs contain a semantically light verb like make or take that may be paired with an abstract nominal object, as in make ...
John D. Sundquist
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