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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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Processing ergativity in compound light verb constructions: electrophysiological evidence from Hindi [PDF]

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
IntroductionErgativity 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, R. Muralikrishnan, Mahima Gulati, Shikha Bhattamishra, Kamal Kumar Choudhary   +4 more
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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, Manizeh Khan, Jesse Snedeker   +2 more
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Structure Influences Case Processing: Electrophysiological Insights from Hindi Light Verb Constructions [PDF]

Brain Sciences
Background: Case marking serves as a crucial cue in sentence processing, enabling the prediction of upcoming arguments, thematic roles, and event structure.
Anna Merin Mathew, R. Muralikrishnan, Mahima Gulati, Kamal Kumar Choudhary   +3 more
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Basque light verb constructions

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2006
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Bernard Oyharçabal
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A corpus-based analysis of light verb constructions with MAKE and DO in British English

Kalbotyra
The 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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The Use of Spanish Light Verb Constructions in the Advocate General’s Opinions of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Darnioji daugiakalbystė
Over the past few decades, increasing attention has been devoted towards the study of formulaic language, both in Lithuania and abroad. It is assumed that stable word combinations, rather than single words, are preferred in speaking and translating ...
Serapinienė Gabija
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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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Towards an Empirical Understanding of membawa ‘bring’: Corpus Insights into Indonesian Light Verb Constructions

Arbitrer
This study analyzes the usage of the verb membawa (lit. bring) in Indonesian light verb constructions (LVCs). LVCs are ubiquitous in many agglutinative languages, including Indonesian.
Danang Satria Nugraha, Veronika Vincze
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Detecting light verb constructions across languages [PDF]

Natural Language Engineering, 2019
AbstractLight verb constructions (LVCs) are verb and noun combinations in which the verb has lost its meaning to some degree and the noun is used in one of its original senses, typically denoting an event or an action. They exhibit special linguistic features, especially when regarded in a multilingual context.
Nagy Istvan T., Rácz Anita, Vincze Veronika   +2 more
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