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Light Verb Constructions as Edge Phenomena

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Scrambling, Light Verb Construction and Parameters

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On Light Verb Constructions in English

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Light Verb Constructions in Legal Discourse

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Processing light verb constructions

The Mental Lexicon, 2011
Henry 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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The emergence of light verb constructions

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2021
AbstractThis paper takes a data-driven perspective on the grammaticalization of German light verb constructions (LVCs) withkommen‘come’. LVCs are complex predicates consisting of a semantically light verb and an eventive noun realized within a phrasal complement, e.g. Germanzur Vollendung kommen, lit. ‘come into completion’.
Jens Fleischhauer, Stefan Hartmann
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Deverbal Nouns in Czech Light Verb Constructions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017
In 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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Separability of light verb constructions in Persian*

Studia Linguistica, 2011
Abstract.  Persian Light Verb Constructions (LVCs), consisting of a light verb and a preverb, fall into two groups: separable and inseparable. The nominal preverbs in the former, unlike those in the latter, can function as direct object DP argument, can be modified by an adjective, and can be relativized, scrambled and focused on by Wh‐interrogatives ...
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