Results 241 to 250 of about 3,442,513 (280)

Mixed Verbs in Code-Switching: The Syntax of Light Verbs [PDF]

open access: yesLanguages, 2016
This study investigates word order variation in Korean-English and Japanese-English code-switching, with specific focus on the relative placement of the object and the verb in two contrasting word orders, Object-Verb (OV) vs. Verb-Object (VO). The results of an experiment eliciting code-switching judgment data provides strong evidence indicating that ...
Ji Young Shim
exaly   +2 more sources
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.

Related searches:

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 ...
exaly   +2 more sources

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
openaire   +2 more sources

The Ordering of Mandarin Chinese Light Verbs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013
Two or more light verbs are sometimes found to co-occur in both Taiwan and Mainland Mandarin Chinese, e.g., jiāyǐ and jinxing in dui xueshēng jiāyǐ jinxing yǐndǎo 'to guide students', and a particular ordering is often preferred, e.g., jiāyǐ jinxing over jinxing jiāyǐ.
Jingxia Lin, Chu Ren Huang
exaly   +2 more sources

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
openaire   +1 more source

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
openaire   +1 more source

Light verbs as classifiers in Udi

open access: yesDiachronica, 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.
Alice C Harris
exaly   +2 more sources

Honorification and light verbs in Japanese

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2007
This paper deals with the syntactic structure of subject-honorific and object-honorific constructions in Japanese through a detailed examination of the morphological make-up of the so-called honorific form of verbs. The main claim is that the honorific form of verbs actually consists of separate morphemes, which include honorific prefixes, verb stems ...
Hiromu Sakai
exaly   +2 more sources

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.
openaire   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy