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Identifying Light Verb Constructions in Indonesian: A Direct Translation Approach
This study aimed to identify light verb constructions (LVCs) in Indonesian based on machine translation methods, namely binary translation or direct translation.
Danang Satria Nugraha
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Construction Grammar and Latin: The case of habeo
The aim of this paper is to extend the notion of light verbs to all the constructions in which a semantically ‘light’ verb is involved. Light verb constructions occur not only when the verb takes a noun in the accusative (V + NP[+acc]), but also when the
Anna Pompei
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Sich in die Abhängigkeit begeben – zum Gefügenomen in Funktionsverbgefügen [PDF]
The paper operates on the broader “light-verb construction” term as defined by Engel (1991/1992), linking it to the concept of prototyping, and interpreting it as a scalar continuum.
Petra Szatmári
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The present article is a contrastive analysis that deals with light verb constructions in German and their equivalents in Thai. The purpose of the study is to answer the following questions: 1) Which light verb constructions occur in the constitutional ...
Natchapol Jutunka +1 more
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It Takes Two to Kiss, but Does it Take Three to Give a Kiss? Categorization Based on Thematic Roles [PDF]
Language is characterised by broad and predictable mappings between meaning and syntactic form. Transitive sentences typically encode two-participant events while ditransitives typically encode three-participant events. Light-verb constructions, however,
Snedeker, Jesse, Wittenberg, Eva
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Though light verb constructions have been in the focus of linguistic analysis in English for a fair time, there is no full-fledged linguistic study that tackles such a linguistic phenomenon in Arabic, especially Quranic Arabic.
H. Khallaf
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The aim of the study is to show the possibilities of using corpus analyses for the introduction of light verb constructions in German during foreign language lessons.
Łukasz Piątkowski
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A new look at the unproductivity of resultative constructions in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]
Typical resultative constructions in English are unavailable in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and in Romance. This fact has been attributed by previous studies to different event-framings, following the Talmian view.
Bruna Elisa da Costa Moreira
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Automatic Identification of Light Verb Constructions: A Review
Light verb constructions (LVC) are complex predicates that are present in many languages. They belong to the Multiword Expression category known as verbal MWEs and has the canonical form of verb+noun.
Kathleen Swee Neo Tan +3 more
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Partial synonymy of terms: Diverse labels for, and interpretations of, light verb constructions
The point of departure of this paper is the hypothesis that, by examining the various labels used for the verbal expressions (also) known as light verb constructions (e.g., periphrastic constructions, pleonastic expressions, semi-compositional ...
Éva Hrenek
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