Light verb constructions vs. preverbal verbs in Looma [PDF]
, 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 ...
Mishchenko, Daria
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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,
Inchon Kim
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Result nominalizations in Romanian light verb constructions [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2017 The aim of this paper is to analyze the class of Romanian nominalizations which enter light verb constructions with the light verbs a face ‘make, do’ and a avea ‘have’. We show that such nominalizations are not event, but result.
Diana Anițescu
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Light Verb Constructions in Lithuanian: Identification and Classification
Studies About Languages, 2020 Light verb constructions (LVCs) are verb-noun constructions in which the noun carries the semantic meaning and the verb is semantically reduced, when compared with its main meaning, for example, atlikti analizę (‘to perform an analysis’). LVCs in Lithuanian have not been addressed much so far.
Kovalevskaitė, Jolanta +2 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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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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Are there biological gender differences at the early stages of first language acquisition when producing double object constructions and to/for-datives? [PDF]
, 2023 Producción CientíficaThis study examines whether biological gender differences appear in the early stages of acquisition in the case of English dative alternation (DA) structures (double object constructions (DOCs) and to/for-datives).
Fernández Fuertes, Raquel +1 more
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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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