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Light Verb Constructions and Their Families - A Corpus Study on German ‘stehen unter’-LVCs
Workshop on Multiword Expressions, 2021 The paper reports on a corpus study of German light verb constructions (LVCs). LVCs come in families which exemplify systematic interpretation patterns. The paper’s aim is to account for the properties determining these patterns on the basis of a corpus ...
Jens Fleischhauer
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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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Synonymous light verb constructions and synonymy groups. A study of verb variability in Hungarian
Investigationes Linguisticae, 2021 Light verb constructions are typically interpreted as idiom-like, fixed patterns in the literature (see e.g. Forgács 2015). However, corpus data suggest that such constructions may also display variability, potentially inviting a study in terms of ...
Éva Hrenek
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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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Review on Light Verb Constructions in Computational Linguistics
Conference proceedings, 2021 Light verb constructions (LVC) are an interesting phenomenon that occurs in many languages. It is a category of verbal Multiword Expressions (MWE) and has the canonical form of verb+noun (Constant et al., 2017; Cordeiro and Candito, 2019; Nagy T., Rácz ...
Kathleen Swee Neo Tan +3 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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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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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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Where Do Aspectual Variants of Light Verb Constructions Belong? [PDF]
Workshop on Multiword ExpressionsExpressions with an aspectual variant of a light verb, e.g. ‘take on debt’ vs. ‘have debt’, are frequent in texts but often difficult to classify between verbal idioms, light verb constructions or compositional phrases.
A. Fotopoulou +2 more
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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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