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The difference between "giving a rose" and "giving a kiss": Sustained neural activity to the light verb construction. [PDF]
J Mem Lang, 2014 Wittenberg E +4 more
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Le causatif en koulango : procédés, syntaxe et sémantisme
Corela, 2022 The canonical structure of the sentence of a natural language is based on active diathesis. Therefore, any other syntactic construction with a different structure is considered as a special construction.
Kouakou Appoh Enoc Kra
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Les locutions verbales et les constructions à verbe support en français L2
Corela, 2018 The goal of this study is to analyse the differences between the idioms and the light verb constructions in French as perceived by native speakers of this language and by the FL2 learners.
Alma Bulut, Adel Jebali
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Basque light verb constructions
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2006 -
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Funktionsverbgefüge - empirisch (am Beispiel von kommen)
Linguistik Online, 2006 In grammars and textbooks used to teach German as a foreign language, the chapters devoted to the "Funktionsverbgefüge" (light verb constructions) are based on data that are mainly obtained by introspection.
Alain Kamber
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A corpus-based analysis of light verb constructions with MAKE and DO in British English
KalbotyraThe comparison of light verb constructions with the verbs make and do has not received much attention. The present paper is an attempt to contribute to the study of these constructions.
Judita Giparaitė
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Sich in die Abhängigkeit begeben – zum Gefügenomen in Funktionsverbgefügen [PDF]
Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2017 The paper operates on the broader “light-verb construction” term as defined by Engel (1991/1992), linking it to the concept of prototyping, and interpreting it as a scalar continuum.
Petra Szatmári
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On the Integration of Dative Adjuncts into Event Structures in Yapa Languages
Languages, 2021 Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa languages of Australia) exhibit a complex predicate construction in which a class of preverbs introduces a single argument that is not shared by the argument structure of the inflecting verb, nor is there necessarily ...
Mitchell Browne
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In serial verb constructions (SVCs), multiple independent lexical verbs are combined in a mono-clausal construction. SVCs express a range of grammatical meanings and are attested in numerous spoken languages all around the world.
Sascha Couvee, Roland Pfau
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Languages, 2023 This article proposes a new description of Cantonese causative–resultative constructions (CRCs), constructions with two verbal elements relevant to the cause and the effect of an event respectively.
Ryan Ka Yau Lai, Michelle Man-Long Pang
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