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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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Deverbální jmenné predikáty v konstrukcích se slovesem dělat v češtině z mezijazykové perspektivy [PDF]

Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2023
This study introduces a cross-linguistic investigation of Do-constructions in Chinese, Russian and Czech, focusing especially on Do-construction strategies in Czech.
Melissa Shih-hui Lin , Karel Šebesta, Kawai Chui, Hsiang-lin Yeh   +3 more
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The Polysemic Study of the Light Verb "dɑdæn" (to give) from Frame Semantics and Construction Morphology Perspective [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2023
In this research, semantic frames and construction schemes of compound verbs with "dɑdæn" (to give) light verb has been studied to consider their polysemy. The data includes 382 compound verbs with "dɑdæn" as a light verb, collected from the sources such
Parya Razmdideh, Mohammad Hasanshahi Raviz   +1 more
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Investigating the Evolution and Frequency of Persian Light Verbs Dâštan (Have), Amadan (Come), Avardan (Bring), Gereftan (Get), and Didan (See) from 1840 to 1940 [PDF]

نشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2020
Persian light verbs have changed in terms of frequency of use in the course of time. The study of frequency changes of various common light verbs in the long history of Persian language seems reasonable, but the study of light verbs in the course of a ...
Bahador Zafarabadi, Jalal Rahemeyan
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Proposed interaction between verb and preposition in the encoding of motion events. A contrastive study between Spanish and Mandarin Chinese

Energeia, 2021
Spanish and Mandarin Chinese have been classified as verb-framed language and satellite-framed language respectively (Talmy: 1991, 2000). However, in Spanish, manner verbs are compatible with hacia and hasta, and a small group of them can do so with ...
María Azucena Penas Ibáñez, Tao Zhang
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The Endless Story of “Compound Verbs”: An Introduction to Conceptology and Terminology of Complex Verbs in Persian [PDF]

نشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2021
Much of the literature about Persian ‘compound verbs’ has been concerned with their ‘true’ instances. About four centuries after identification of this construction, however, there is yet little agreement on any single definition or conception of it ...
Mojtaba Monshizadeh, Ehsan Changizi, Babak Sharif   +2 more
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Tibetan Trisyllabic Light Verb Construction Recognition [PDF]

Himalayan Linguistics, 2016
The Tibetan trisyllabic light verb construction is a type of widely used verb phrase that is composed of a disyllabic noun or adjective and a light verb. A large number of Tibetan trisyllabic light verb constructions are widely found in Tibetan. Successfully recognizing this type of phrase greatly contributes to Tibetan information processing, however,
Zhao, Weina, Li, Lin, Liu, Huidan, Wu, Jian   +3 more
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“Me likey!” A new (old) argument structure or a partially fixed expression with the verb like?

Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2022
This paper explores the current use of the verb like in sequences such as “me likey”. This new use is practically limited to modern variant spellings (likey, likee, like-y and likie) and resembles the original (and now obsolete) impersonal structure of ...
Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras
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Detecting light verb constructions across languages [PDF]

Natural Language Engineering, 2019
AbstractLight verb constructions (LVCs) are verb and noun combinations in which the verb has lost its meaning to some degree and the noun is used in one of its original senses, typically denoting an event or an action. They exhibit special linguistic features, especially when regarded in a multilingual context.
Nagy Istvan T., Rácz Anita, Vincze Veronika   +2 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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