Results 21 to 30 of about 253,045 (328)

Input effects on the acquisition of a novel phrasal construction in five year olds [PDF]

, 2012
The present experiments demonstrate that children as young as five years old (M = 5;2) generalize beyond their input on the basis of minimal exposure to a novel argument structure construction.
Boyd, Jeremy K., Goldberg, Adele E., Thomson, Jennifer, Wonnacott, Elizabeth   +3 more
core   +1 more source

English Light Verb Construction Identification Using Lexical Knowledge

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015
This research describes the development of a supervised classifier of English light verb constructions, for example, "take a walk" and "make a speech." This classifier relies on features from dependency parses, OntoNotes sense tags, WordNet hypernyms
Wei-Te Chen, C. Bonial, Martha Palmer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Light Verb Constructions as Means of Expressing Semelfactive/Multiplicative Meanings in J.K. Rowling’s Discourse (on the basis of novels ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’)

Revista Amazonía investiga, 2022
The article discusses the problem of light verb constructions in contemporary English on the basis of novels ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ by J.K. Rowling.
A. Tron, O. Derevianko, Marianna Zhumbei, L. Shpilchak   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Basque light verb constructions

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2006
-
openaire   +6 more sources

In Light Verb Constructions, the Verb is Light in English, but the Matter is Different in Quranic Arabic

مجلة البحث العلمی فی الآداب, 2022
Though light verb constructions have been in the focus of linguistic analysis in English for a fair time, there is no full-fledged linguistic study that tackles such a linguistic phenomenon in Arabic, especially Quranic Arabic.
H. Khallaf
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Expansion of verb-argument construction repertoires in L2 English writing

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2023
This paper investigates the use of English verb-argument constructions (VACs) in second language writing in light of usage-based constructionist approaches to language development.
Ji-Hyun Park, Min-Chang Sung
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Prog imperfective drift in ancient Greek? Reconsidering eimi 'be' with present participle [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper, I reconsider the diachrony of the Ancient Greek periphrastic construction of eimi 'be' with present participle by means of Bertinetto’s recently proposed model for the development of progressive grams (a process called ‘PROG imperfective ...
Adrados, Aerts, Alexander, Amenta, Bailey, Barbelenet, Beekes, Behrens, Bentein, Bentein, Bentein, Benveniste, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Björck, Brinton, Brugmann, Bybee, Bybee, Castelnovo, Ceglia, Chantraine, Clark, Comrie, Coseriu, Coseriu, Croft, Croft, Cutrer, Dahl, De Smet, Declerck, Dietrich, Dietrich, Dietrich, Dik, Dik, Dover, Ebert, Fanning, Fischer, Fleischman, Fleischman, Freeze, Giacalone Ramat, Givón, Gonda, Grimes, Guiraud, Hagège, Haspelmath, Haspelmath, Heine, Hopper, Huddleston, Jannaris, Johanson, Jones, Kahn, Killie, Kirk, Kühner, Lambrecht, Langacker, Lanérès, Lasso de la Vega, Leech, Lehmann, Lesher, Liddell, Longacre, Lyons, Lyons, Marchello-Nizia, Matič, Metslang, Michaelis, Michaelis, Mufwene, Nickel, Oldsjö, Payne, Pollak, Polzenhagen, Porter, Pusch, Rijksbaron, Rosenkranz, Rosén, Rosén, Rosén, Ruijgh, Rydbeck, Sihler, Stassen, Tichy, Vendler, Viti, Wackernagel, Wheeler, Wifstrand, Ziegeler   +105 more
core   +2 more sources