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Processing light verb constructions
The Mental Lexicon, 2011Henry gave Elsa a kiss give kiss give a kiss We test two approaches to light verb constructions: (1) joint predication in light verb constructions is stored as pre-specified, and their high ...
Eva Wittenberg, Maria Mercedes Piñango
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Identification of Croatian Light Verb Constructions with NooJ
2017This paper deals with the identification of verbal multiword expressions in Croatian using NooJ. We focus on light verb constructions, i.e. constructions consisting of a light verb and a nominal part (e.g. donijeti odluku ‘to make a decision’ or ‘to reach a decision’). The nominal part in light verb constructions (LVCs) can be either a noun phrase (e.g.
Kresimir Sojat +2 more
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The acquisition of event nominals and light verb constructions
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2019Abstract In language acquisition, children assume that syntax and semantics reliably map onto each other, and they use these mappings to guide their inferences about novel word meanings: For instance, at the lexical level, nouns should name objects and verbs name events, and at the clausal level, syntactic arguments should match ...
Angela Xiaoxue He, Eva Wittenberg
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Light Verb Constructions in Romance
2023The chapter provides a comparative analysis of a set of Light Verb Constructions of some Romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian) employng the Light Verbs ‘have’, ‘do/make’, ‘give’, ‘take’. Light Verb Constructions are classified according to the Aktionsart of nouns. From the cross-linguistic data analysis, prototypical and
Anna Pompei, Valentina Piunno
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Automatic Identification of Persian Light Verb Constructions
2012Multiword expressions pose a challenge to the development of large-scale, semantically-rich Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. We use a bilingual parallel corpus for automatically extracting Light Verb Constructions (LVCs), a very common type of multiword expressions in many languages, including Persian.
Bahar Salehi +2 more
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Deverbal Nouns in Czech Light Verb Constructions
2017In this paper, we provide a well-founded description of Czech deverbal nouns in both nominal and verbal structures (light verb constructions), based on a complex interaction between the lexicon and the grammar. We show that light verb constructions result from a regular syntactic operation.
Václava Kettnerová +2 more
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Verbs of pain in the light of grammar of constructions
Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics, 2008Constructions with predicates from the semantic zone of pain are considered from a typological perspective. A characteristic feature of this field is its lexeme composition: the major portion of it is formed by verbs borrowed from other semantic fields.
T. I. Reznikova +2 more
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The Light Verb Construction in Japanese
2000This study deals with the so-called Light Verb Construction in Japanese, which consists of the verb “suru” do and an accusative (“o”) marked verbal noun (VN). There have been unresolved debates on the role of “suru”: whether “suru” in “VN-o suru” functions as a light or heavy verb.
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