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Syntactic Structure of Light Verb Constructions
East European and Balkan InstituteThis paper provides a well-founded approach to the type of complex predicate where two syntactic elements serve as a single predicate in Czech. Czech complex predicates are composed of so-called ‘Verbe support(fr.)’ in the verbal part and predicative nouns in nominal part. This type of construction can be found inter-linguistically in many of languages,
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DYNAMIC SHIFT IN THE VERB SEMANTICS: A CASE OF SOME FOUR-LETTER VERBS
Філологічні студії, 2016 The traditional English verb classifi cation based upon their grammatical meaning is a certain matrix according to which new units are grouped. The present investigation is aimed at integral describing the verbs of the ‘give’ type in the model “to give a
V.V. Mykhaylenko
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Constructional semantics of Italian light verb constructions
This paper proposes a corpus-driven description of Italian light verb constructions (LVCs), i.e. complex predicates formed by a light verb and either a noun phrase or a prepositional phrase. The light verb prendere, ‘to take’, is the focus of this investigation.
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Two Types of Korean Light Verb Constructions
English21, 2018 Kearns (1988) has previously proposed two types of Light Verb Constructions in English: True Light Verb Constructions and Vague Action Verb Constructions. This paper claims that the Korean Light Verb Construction without an accusative marker corresponds to the True Light Verb Construction in English, while the Korean Light Verb Construction with an ...
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Context Factors in Clause-Type Disambiguation: Old High German ibu- Clauses in the Syntagma
CogniTextesIn the history of studies in German syntax, clauses have typically been described based on their most salient internal features on various structural levels.
Michael Redmond
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Light Verb Constructions in Potwari
, 2015 See full text for abstract. Not provided.
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LinguisticsThe present article provides a contrastive corpus-based analysis of resultative secondary predicates in recipe contexts. Two Germanic languages (Dutch and English) and two Romance languages (French and Spanish) are investigated.
Métairy Justine
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Light verb constructions vs. preverbal verbs in Looma
, 2016 When dealing with light verb constructions (LVCs) in a particular language, one of the most intriguing problems is the status of nouns forming part of them. Do they differ from “normal” NPs, and if so, in what exactly? The data collected during my fieldwork with the speakers of Woi-Bhalaga, a Guinean dialect of Looma (South-Western < Mande < Niger ...
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Complex predicates and light verb constructions in Modern Irish
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014 This paper characterises complex predicates and light verb constructions in Modern Irish. Light verbs are attested in many of the world’s languages (Alsina, Bresnan & Sells, 2001; Butt, 1995, 2003). Cross linguistically, there appears to be a common class of verbs involved in these constructions and generally there is agreement that light verbs ...
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The Absolute »I AM« in Exodus 3:14 and Hosea 1:9
Diacovensia, 2014 In the article the authors confront the meanings of two Hebrew verb forms and their translations in biblical Greek and modern translations. It is the verb form 'ehyèiz in Ex 3:14, and its negation lö'-'ehyè in Hosea 1:9.
Ivica Čatić, Ivan Andelfinger
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