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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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Polysemy of the Verbs “xesen” “to drop” and “kæften” “to fall” in Ilami Kurdish: a Cognitive Semantics Approach [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2021 This study aims to investigate the polysemy of the Ilami Kurdish verbs “xesen” “to drop” and “kæften” “to fall” in light of cognitive semantics theory. Categorization, image, schema, and metaphor are used to analyze the polysemy of the verbs “xesen” and “
Ameneh Karimi +2 more
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Neophilologica, 2022 The paper proposes a formal definition of support verb as (roughly) a semantically empty verb serving as a syntactic “prop” to a predicative noun such that the phrase V(support)(N) + N is synonymous with the verb V0 derived form N: ‘V(support)(N) + N’ = ‘V0(N)’, as in ‘to give an order’ = ‘to order’ or ‘to receive an order’ = ‘to be ordered’.
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Result nominalizations in Romanian light verb constructions [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2017 The aim of this paper is to analyze the class of Romanian nominalizations which enter light verb constructions with the light verbs a face ‘make, do’ and a avea ‘have’. We show that such nominalizations are not event, but result.
Diana Anițescu
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Glottodidactica, 2019 The aim of the study is to show the possibilities of using corpus analyses for the introduction of light verb constructions in German during foreign language lessons.
Łukasz Piątkowski
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The Persian light verb dādan ‘to give’: Causation and more [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسیThis paper aims to investigate the light verb constructions (LVCs) formed with the light verb dādan ‘to give’ in Persian by employing the principles of cognitive lexical semantics.
Reza Soltani +2 more
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Revisit adjective distribution in Chinese
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2017 This study re-classifies Chinese monosyllabic adjectives and verbs in light of ‘scale structure’. It examines how various adjectives are associated with different scalar layers of verbs.
Wenchao LI
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Complex Predicates and the Functional Sequence
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008 In this paper I argue that a fine-grained functional hierarchy of semantically contentful categories such as Tense, Aspect, Initiation, and Process has explanatory power in understanding the crosslinguistic distribution of complex predicates.
Peter Svenonius
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Light Verbs in Persian Complex Predicates [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2013 Persian Light Verb (PLV) is of the chalengable issues in Persian Linguistics. Most of the studies on PLV are on its role in forming Noun Incorporation (NI) as well as Argument Structure.
Mehrzad Mansouri
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Creating Surprise in Complex Predication
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008 In many languages, the verbs take and go may combine with another predicate to yield an inceptive reading, where the onset of the event denoted by the main predicate is in some sense focalized. Some of these cases have a touch of surprise, unexpectedness,
Anna-Lena Wiklund
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