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This chapter focuses on a light verb construction (LVC) from both Portuguese and Spanish, dar conselho/consejo (“to give advice”). The chapter provides an overview of the literature both on the concept of light verbs and, in particular, on the syntactic and semantic analyses put forward by previous literature on Portuguese and Spanish.
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This chapter focuses on a light verb construction (LVC) from both Portuguese and Spanish, dar conselho/consejo (“to give advice”). The chapter provides an overview of the literature both on the concept of light verbs and, in particular, on the syntactic and semantic analyses put forward by previous literature on Portuguese and Spanish.
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Light Verb Constructions as Complex Verbs
2023The notion of light verb constructions has been traditionally related to the ‘insignificance’ of the verb, which is described as a grammatical item only codifying TAM system and φ-features, whereas the whole predicative content is thought to be conveyed by the noun.
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Light Verb Constructions in Romance
2023The chapter provides a comparative analysis of a set of Light Verb Constructions of some Romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian) employng the Light Verbs ‘have’, ‘do/make’, ‘give’, ‘take’. Light Verb Constructions are classified according to the Aktionsart of nouns. From the cross-linguistic data analysis, prototypical and
Anna Pompei, Valentina Piunno
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Light verb constructions in second language learning and teaching
Rivista di psicolinguistica applicata, 2020Phraseological constructions play a crucial role in L1 and L2 language learning, thus their acquisition becomes a fundamental component in the development of linguistic competence, both in specialized and general contexts. Unlike other typologies of formulaic sequences, light verbs constructions (LVCs) have received no, or not enough, specific ...
Lozano Zahonero, Petroni
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Identification of Croatian Light Verb Constructions with NooJ
2017This paper deals with the identification of verbal multiword expressions in Croatian using NooJ. We focus on light verb constructions, i.e. constructions consisting of a light verb and a nominal part (e.g. donijeti odluku ‘to make a decision’ or ‘to reach a decision’). The nominal part in light verb constructions (LVCs) can be either a noun phrase (e.g.
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Light Verb Constructions in MSA
Critical Studies in Languages and LiteratureLight verb constructions (LVCs) are composed of two elements: a light verb and a coverb that represent a complex predicate. The coverb can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a prepositional phrase. The focus of the present work of research is LVCs with nominal coverbs in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
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Eventuality semantics in Slovak light verb constructions
Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 2016Summary The study investigates the eventuality semantics of light verb constructions in Slovak. The presence of temporal/aspectual and relational/argument structure semantic components which represent eventuality structure is seen as the fundamental motivation for usage of these constructions instead of their synthetic verbal pendants ...
Martina Ivanová, Miroslava Kyseľová
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Light Verb Constructions in English-Spanish translation
2023Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) are combinations of a partially delexicalized verb and a noun indicating an action or an event (e. g., give a description). Studies modelled on the Meaning-Text theory and qualia roles of the Generative Lexicon model propose that LVCs combine nouns and verbs according to shared underlying, underspecified ...
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Light verb constructions in Latin American newspapers
Spanish in Context, 2013This article examines the occurrence of variant forms of Spanish light verb constructions (LVCs) in a seven-million-word corpus of contemporary newspaper texts from seven Latin American countries. The findings from this corpus are compared with results from a previous study using a corpus of scholarly writing; additional information from a diachronic ...
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Automatic Identification of Persian Light Verb Constructions
2012Multiword expressions pose a challenge to the development of large-scale, semantically-rich Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. We use a bilingual parallel corpus for automatically extracting Light Verb Constructions (LVCs), a very common type of multiword expressions in many languages, including Persian.
Bahar Salehi +2 more
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