Walking out of the light verb jungle: Exploring the translation strategies of light verb constructions in Chinese–English consecutive interpreting [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Cross-linguistic features of light verb constructions (LVCs) profile a major facet of the typological difference between Chinese and English. By adopting a theory-driven, context-based interpreting task, this study explores the effectiveness and ...
Di Wang, Guiying Jiang, Yufan Zheng
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Investigating Thematic Roles through Implicit Learning: Evidence from Light Verb Constructions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The syntactic structure of a sentence is usually a strong predictor of its meaning: Each argument noun phrase (i.e., Subject and Object) should map onto exactly one thematic role (i.e., Agent and Patient, respectively).
Eva Wittenberg +2 more
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Structure Influences Case Processing: Electrophysiological Insights from Hindi Light Verb Constructions [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: Case marking serves as a crucial cue in sentence processing, enabling the prediction of upcoming arguments, thematic roles, and event structure.
Anna Merin Mathew +3 more
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Processing ergativity in compound light verb constructions: electrophysiological evidence from Hindi [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceIntroductionErgativity marks subject arguments as agents of a transitive event and thereby signals verbal transitivity and influences language comprehension.MethodWe report here on an event-related brain potentials (ERP) study in Hindi, in which we ...
Anna Merin Mathew +4 more
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Las construcciones con verbo soporte desde una perspectiva plurilingüe: un análisis contrastivo entre español, italiano, francés, inglés y alemán [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2021 Support verb constructions (SVCs), also known as light verb constructions, (e.g. to set in motion, to take a picture) are a phraseological phenomenon typical of many languages.
Letizia D’Andrea
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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 +3 more
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A Corpus of Light Verb Constructions in Persian [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2022 A linguistic corpus is a collection of linguistic data derived from language texts, which represent the real patterns of language use to the researchers.
Mahdie Eshaghi +1 more
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Optional valency complementations in Czech light verb constructions [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2021 This paper addresses Czech light verb constructions, partly revising principles of their syntactic structure formation formulated within the Functional Generative Description.
Václava Kettnerová
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Funktionsverbgefüge als Ausdruck von Höflichkeit in geschäftlicher Korrespondenz / Light-Verb Constructions as an Expression of Politeness in Business Correspondence [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2020 Funktionsverbgefüge (Helbig 1977) sind komplexe Mehrworteinheiten, die aus einem semantisch ver-blassten Verb und einem Substantiv bestehen, z. B. Entscheidung treffen oder einen Antrag stellen.
Łukasz Piątkowski
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Assigning meaning to light verbs in Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 Light verb constructions (e.g., give a kiss to somebody) syntactically reflect typical ditransitive structures (e.g., give a violin to somebody) yet it is not clear whether these two structures thematically similar as well.
Duygu ÖZGE +2 more
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