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The Nature and Structure of Reflexive Verb Constructions

Acta Linguistica Asiatica
Based on a summary of the features of reflexive verb constructions (ReVCs), this paper proposes that the internal structure of reflexive verb constructions is [VP Spec[V` V R]].
Yongzhong Yang
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Light Verb just as a Little v*

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002
In this paper I argue that the light verb ha in Korean is an overt realization of the v head. Ha/ci alternation in Korean psych verbs makes a strong case for DO/BECOME meanings of v, whose semantic contribution is undetermined and contextualized in ...
Jung, Dukkyo
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Split Verb Phrase in Persian: The Distinctness of Voice and Little v [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2019
In more than two decades, the conclusion that any verb phrase is made up of two projections, vP or voiceP and VP, has become standard among Chomskyan linguists.
Mazdak Anushe, Gohar Sharifi
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Rethinking the Description and Typology of Cantonese Causative–Resultative Constructions: A Dynamic Constructionist Lens

Languages, 2023
This article proposes a new description of Cantonese causative–resultative constructions (CRCs), constructions with two verbal elements relevant to the cause and the effect of an event respectively.
Ryan Ka Yau Lai, Michelle Man-Long Pang
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A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Patient-Subject Constructions in Chinese

Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2020
The exact nature and derivation of patient-subject constructions (PSC) in Chinese are still at dispute in literature. Based on the restriction of manner adverbial modification and the nonexistence of the manner reading of zenme ‘how’ observed in Chinese ...
Wang Changsong, Zheng Mingming
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Information packaging strategies serving the communicative needs of speakers

Crossroads, 2022
. This paper presents the findings of a study of diverse information packaging strategies employed by speakers of English to better serve their communicative needs in given contexts, based on examples from the British National Corpus (BNC).
Natasha Stojanovska-Ilievska
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Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Verb-Particle Constructions formed with para atrás ‘back(wards)’

CogniTextes
Although verb-particle constructions have been extensively studied from various theoretical perspectives, previous research has strongly focused on the particle (and possibly verb) semantics, whereas the interaction with the co(n)text has been of little ...
Evelyn Wiesinger
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Les locutions verbales et les constructions à verbe support en français L2

Corela, 2018
The goal of this study is to analyse the differences between the idioms and the light verb constructions in French as perceived by native speakers of this language and by the FL2 learners.
Alma Bulut, Adel Jebali
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Light verb ellipsis constructions in Korean

Language and Linguistics. 語言暨語言學, 2020
AbstractDrawing on the fact that the light verbha- ‘do’ in Korean may or may not be elided in negative sentences, I offer a syntactic analysis for the light verb ellipsis in which the various types of light verbs belong to distinct heads, such asv, Appl, and Voice. Hierarchically, they occupy different syntactic positions. Thus, the light verb ellipsis
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"Que" inicial átono como marca de modalidad

Estudios de Lingüística, 2003
Unstressed que-inital constructions have been traditionally treated as instances of conjunction-headed structures, preceded or not by an implicit performative verb.
Salvador Pons Bordería
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