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Light Verb Constructions in Romance
2023The chapter provides a comparative analysis of a set of Light Verb Constructions of some Romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian) employng the Light Verbs ‘have’, ‘do/make’, ‘give’, ‘take’. Light Verb Constructions are classified according to the Aktionsart of nouns. From the cross-linguistic data analysis, prototypical and
Anna Pompei, Valentina Piunno
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The Journal of Chinese Language, Literature and Translation, 2020
T.-H. Jonah Lin +2 more
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T.-H. Jonah Lin +2 more
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The Journal of Chinese Language, Literature and Translation, 2020
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Light Verbs in Translated Chinese
2016This chapter focuses on the light verbs, which related to nominalization, and their hybridity features in translated Chinese, using parallel and comparable corpora as an evidence base. It first introduces the difference between Chinese and English in light verbs, then the different frequencies in translated and native Chinese.
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Light Verb Constructions in MSA
Critical Studies in Languages and LiteratureLight verb constructions (LVCs) are composed of two elements: a light verb and a coverb that represent a complex predicate. The coverb can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a prepositional phrase. The focus of the present work of research is LVCs with nominal coverbs in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
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How light is ‘give’ as a Light Verb
2023This 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 and Aktionsart: A Case Study
This paper deals with the Aktionsart of Latin light verb constructions formed by verbs such as facio and habeo / teneo, and motion nouns. In particular, the article aims to establish to what extent facio can be effectively considered as a telic light verb, and what the differences are with regard to the selection of habeo and teneo. The findings of theopenaire +1 more source