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Light verbs as classifiers in Udi

Diachronica, 2008
In Udi, most verbal lexemes are composed, in all tense-aspect-mood categories, of a light verb and an ‘initial’. It is argued here that in the first stage of this development, simplex verbs were juxtaposed with focused constituents. In the second stage, initials and verbs formed compounds, and this pattern spread beyond those that had once involved ...
Alice C Harris
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Chapter 6 Pseudocoordinating verbs are light verbs

Studies in Generative Grammar, 2007
Anna-Lena Wiklund
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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, Mereu, Lunella, Piunno, Valentina   +2 more
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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, Hongzhi Xu, Menghan Jiang, Chu-Ren Huang   +3 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, Manuel Delicado Cantero   +1 more
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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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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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Identification of Croatian Light Verb Constructions with NooJ

2017
This paper deals with the identification of verbal multiword expressions in Croatian using NooJ. We focus on light verb constructions, i.e. constructions consisting of a light verb and a nominal part (e.g. donijeti odluku ‘to make a decision’ or ‘to reach a decision’). The nominal part in light verb constructions (LVCs) can be either a noun phrase (e.g.
Kresimir Sojat, Kristina Kocijan, Bozo Bekavac   +2 more
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How light is ‘give’ as a Light Verb

2023
This article deals with the actual emptiness of Light Verbs with particular reference to the Light Verb ‘give’ in constructions with the pattern [V+N]. The paper specifically focuses on the contribution given by both the verb and the noun to the Aktionsart of Light Verb Constructions, starting from the idea that these are complex predicates.
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Light Verbs (2)

The Journal of Chinese Language, Literature and Translation, 2020
T.-H. Jonah Lin, Chang-Ho Lee, Ji-Hyoun Lee   +2 more
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