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Light Verbs and Grammaticalization. Evidence From the Catalan Light Verb “Agafar”
Catalan Journal of LinguisticsDetermining the linguistic nature of light verbs – whether they are lexical or grammatical units – is still an open question. Light verbs are often characterised as delexicalized.
Jordi Ginebra
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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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Structure Influences Case Processing: Electrophysiological Insights from Hindi Light Verb Constructions [PDF]
Brain SciBackground: Case marking serves as a crucial cue in sentence processing, enabling the prediction of upcoming arguments, thematic roles, and event structure.
Mathew A +3 more
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Light Verbs in Persian Complex Predicates [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2013 Persian Light Verb (PLV) is of the chalengable issues in Persian Linguistics. Most of the studies on PLV are on its role in forming Noun Incorporation (NI) as well as Argument Structure.
Mehrzad Mansouri
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Using Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA) To Recognize Meanings of Zadan [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2022 With the advent of huge corpora in recent decades, there has appeared a tendency among researchers to utilize them in lexicography. According to Miller (2018), a major issue involved in Persian lexicography is the presence of light verbs.
Gholamhossein Karimi Doostan +1 more
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The Polysemic Study of the Light Verb "dɑdæn" (to give) from Frame Semantics and Construction Morphology Perspective [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 In this research, semantic frames and construction schemes of compound verbs with "dɑdæn" (to give) light verb has been studied to consider their polysemy. The data includes 382 compound verbs with "dɑdæn" as a light verb, collected from the sources such
Parya Razmdideh +1 more
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Investigating the Evolution and Frequency of Persian Light Verbs Dâštan (Have), Amadan (Come), Avardan (Bring), Gereftan (Get), and Didan (See) from 1840 to 1940 [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2020 Persian light verbs have changed in terms of frequency of use in the course of time. The study of frequency changes of various common light verbs in the long history of Persian language seems reasonable, but the study of light verbs in the course of a ...
Bahador Zafarabadi, Jalal Rahemeyan
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2020 The paper deals with Italian helping verbs (modal, aspectual, causative verbs) and light verbs which form complex predicates and with the rules that guide its use in Italian descriptive grammars published in Italy between 1953 and 2005. The author shows
Anna Godzich
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Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021 This article deals with the lexical-semantic group of verbs that denote light in Russian and French. The authors compared their lexical-semantic classifications, characteristics, and grammatical parameters.
Zh. Yu. Polezhaeva, T. G. Pismak
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Diachronic pertinacity of light verbs [PDF]
Lingua, 2013 We contrast the historical data with respect to light verbs and auxiliaries in Indo-Aryan and show that light verbs are comparatively stable and unlikely to be subject to reanalysis or restructuring. We propose that there is a very tight connection between a light verb and its corresponding main verb, and that this connection differs markedly from the ...
Miriam Butt, Aditi Lahiri
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