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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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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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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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Light Verb Constructions in Lithuanian: Identification and Classification
, 2020 Light verb constructions (LVCs) are verb-noun constructions in which the noun carries the semantic meaning and the verb is semantically reduced, when compared with its main meaning, for example, atlikti analize (‘to perform an analysis’).
Jolanta Kovalevskaite +2 more
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Processing multiple non-adjacent dependencies: evidence from sequence learning [PDF]
, 2012 Processing non-adjacent dependencies is considered to be one of the hallmarks of human language. Assuming that sequence-learning tasks provide a useful way to tap natural-language-processing mechanisms, we cross-modally combined serial reaction time and ...
De Vries M. H. +8 more
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Children's verbalizations of motion events in German [PDF]
, 2010 Recent studies in language acquisition have paid much attention to linguistic diversity and have begun to show that language properties may have an impact on how children construct and organize their representations. With respect to motion events, Talmy (
Anne-Katharina Ochsenbauer +4 more
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Automatic Identification of Light Verb Constructions: A Review
IEM Journal, 2022 Light verb constructions (LVC) are complex predicates that are present in many languages. They belong to the Multiword Expression category known as verbal MWEs and has the canonical form of verb+noun.
Kathleen Swee Neo Tan +3 more
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Spectral synthesis of circumstellar disks - application to white dwarf debris disks
, 2009 Gas and dust disks are common objects in the universe and can be found around various objects, e.g. young stars, cataclysmic variables, active galactic nuclei, or white dwarfs.
Becklin E E Farihi J Jura M +6 more
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