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AbstractLight Verb Constructions (LVCs) have received widespread attention. Research on these constructions, however, has for the most part focused exclusively on their syntactic and lexical-semantic properties. Additionally, studies devoted to specific LVCs tend to neglect the phrasal-semantic and pragmatic variation brought about by the combination ...
Elena Martínez Caro, Jorge Arús-Hita
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Cross-linguistic features of light verb constructions (LVCs) profile a major facet of the typological difference between Chinese and English. By adopting a theory-driven, context-based interpreting task, this study explores the effectiveness and ...
Di Wang, Guiying Jiang, Yufan Zheng
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A corpus-based analysis of light verb constructions with MAKE and DO in British English
The comparison of light verb constructions with the verbs make and do has not received much attention. The present paper is an attempt to contribute to the study of these constructions.
Judita Giparaitė
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Abstract Dynamin 1 is a GTPase protein involved in synaptic vesicle fission, which facilitates the exocytosis of neurotransmitters necessary for normal signaling. Pathogenic variants in the DNM1 gene are associated with intractable epilepsy, often manifested as infantile spasms at onset, developmental delay, and a movement disorder, and are located in ...
Davide Mei +4 more
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Pour un traitement syntactico-sémantique des verbes de couleur rougir, bleuir, verdir et jaunir
This paper proposes a study of the polysemy of four colour verbs (rougir, bleuir, verdir and jaunir) based on Dubois & Dubois-Charlier’s (1997) electronic dictionary Les Verbes Français.
Claudine Salinas-Kahloul
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A Corpus of Light Verb Constructions in Persian [PDF]
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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Disambiguating Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Using Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences [PDF]
Selectional preferences have been used by word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems as one source of disambiguating information. We evaluate WSD using selectional preferences acquired for English adjective—noun, subject, and direct object grammatical ...
Briscoe Ted +3 more
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Input effects on the acquisition of a novel phrasal construction in five year olds [PDF]
The present experiments demonstrate that children as young as five years old (M = 5;2) generalize beyond their input on the basis of minimal exposure to a novel argument structure construction.
Boyd, Jeremy K. +3 more
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The paper proposes a formal definition of support verb as (roughly) a semantically empty verb serving as a syntactic “prop” to a predicative noun such that the phrase V(support)(N) + N is synonymous with the verb V0 derived form N: ‘V(support)(N) + N’ = ‘V0(N)’, as in ‘to give an order’ = ‘to order’ or ‘to receive an order’ = ‘to be ordered’.
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The Processing of Speech Formulas on Turkish: A Masked Priming Study
Studies have indicated that formulaic sequences are processed significantly faster than newly created phrases; however, the source of this processing advantage has not been sufficiently investigated in the literature. The Holistic Approach justifies this
Dilek GÖYMEN, Mehmet AYGÜNEŞ
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