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Light verbs and polysemy

Language Sciences, 2001
Abstract Much current work on complex predicates proposes that the light verbs which head these constructions do not contribute to the thematic role inventory of the complex predicate. They are assumed not to have lexical semantic content; therefore, the semantic relationship between the light verb and its “heavy” or main-verb counterpart is often ...
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Light verbs and structural case

Lingua, 2005
In this paper, we focus on a group of the Kurdish, Korean and Persian Light Verb Constructions (LVCs); consisting of a semantically light verb (LV) and a verbal noun (VN). It is argued that the LVs, capable of case marking and hosting verbal features, in combination with T function either as nominative and accusative case markers or only as nominative ...
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Light Verb Constructions as Complex Verbs

2023
The notion of light verb constructions has been traditionally related to the ‘insignificance’ of the verb, which is described as a grammatical item only codifying TAM system and φ-features, whereas the whole predicative content is thought to be conveyed by the noun.
Pompei, Anna   +2 more
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Light verb constructions

2021
This chapter focuses on a light verb construction (LVC) from both Portuguese and Spanish, dar conselho/consejo (“to give advice”). The chapter provides an overview of the literature both on the concept of light verbs and, in particular, on the syntactic and semantic analyses put forward by previous literature on Portuguese and Spanish.
Patrícia Amaral   +1 more
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Processing light verb constructions

The Mental Lexicon, 2011
Henry gave Elsa a kiss give kiss give a kiss We test two approaches to light verb constructions: (1) joint predication in light verb constructions is stored as pre-specified, and their high ...
Eva Wittenberg, Maria Mercedes Piñango
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Annotation and Classification of Light Verbs and Light Verb Variations in Mandarin Chinese

Proceedings of Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing, 2014
Light verbs pose an a challenge in linguistics because of its syntactic and semantic versatility and its unique distribution different from regular verbs with higher semantic content and selectional resrictions. Due to its light grammatical content, earlier natural language processing studies typically put light verbs in a stop word list and ignore ...
Jingxia Lin   +3 more
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Light verbs in verbal reduplication

Studia Linguistica, 2019
AbstractBy drawing on new verbal reduplication data of tentative constructions in Mandarin Chinese, this paper provides an interesting argument for the conception of phases and its corollary, Phase Impenetrability Condition (Chomsky 2001, 2004, 2008).
Chyan‐an Arthur Wang   +1 more
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The emergence of light verb constructions

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2021
AbstractThis paper takes a data-driven perspective on the grammaticalization of German light verb constructions (LVCs) withkommen‘come’. LVCs are complex predicates consisting of a semantically light verb and an eventive noun realized within a phrasal complement, e.g. Germanzur Vollendung kommen, lit. ‘come into completion’.
Jens Fleischhauer, Stefan Hartmann
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On the Light Verb Hypothesis

Linguistic Inquiry, 2001
Selon Kitahara (1997), les categories fonctionnelles seraient motivees grammaticalement par les donnees resultant de la forme phonetique et/ou de la forme logique ou de maniere interne a la theorie, excepte les verbes supports qui seraient uniquement motives de maniere interne a la theorie. L'A.
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