Cognitive dynamics of verb-particle constructions: an eye-tracking study on phrasal verbs and verb-preposition combinations [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study investigates the cognitive processing of verb-particle constructions (VPCs) using eye-tracking data to explore how English native speakers process different types of the sequence noun phrase (NP)-verb-particle-NP during reading tasks.
Hassane Kissane +10 more
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Celebrating diversity: The origins and pathways of three support-verb constructions
Lexis: Journal in English LexicologySupport-verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that fill the predicate slot of a sentence, such as to make a suggestion in I made the suggestion that she join us.
Victoria Beatrix Fendel
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AN ANNOTATED CORPUS WITH SUPPORT VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN PORTUGUESE
Gragoatá, 2015 The support verb constructions (SVC) are a type of nominal construction, where the core predicate is the noun, called 'predicative noun' (Npred), which is assisted by a verb, called 'support verb' (Vsup).
Amanda Pontes Rassi +2 more
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Las construcciones con verbo soporte desde una perspectiva plurilingüe: un análisis contrastivo entre español, italiano, francés, inglés y alemán [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2021 Support verb constructions (SVCs), also known as light verb constructions, (e.g. to set in motion, to take a picture) are a phraseological phenomenon typical of many languages.
Letizia D’Andrea
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Moniverbiset konstruktiot ja oppijansuomen kompleksisuus kielitaidon eri tasoilla
Lähivõrdlusi, 2023 "Verb constructions and complexity across proficiency levels in learner Finnish". Learner language development can be analysed by measuring complexity, accuracy and fluency. Complexity, our focus here, can be defined as the range and sophistication
Taina Mylläri
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Syntactic variation of support verb constructions [PDF]
Lingvisticae Investigationes, 2008 We report experiments about the syntactic variations of support verb constructions, a special type of multiword expressions (MWEs) containing predicative nouns. In these expressions, the noun can occur with or without the verb, with no clear-cut semantic difference.
Laporte, Eric +2 more
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The retreat from locative overgeneralisation errors: a novel verb grammaticality judgment study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Whilst some locative verbs alternate between the ground- and figure-locative constructions (e.g. Lisa sprayed the flowers with water/Lisa sprayed water onto the flowers), others are restricted to one construction or the other (e.g.
Amy Bidgood +3 more
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Caused motion events in Modern Uyghur: a typological perspective
Linguistics, 2022 Talmy’s motion event typology (Talmy, Leonard. 2000. Towards a cognitive semantics: Conceptual structuring systems, vol. 2. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press) has served as an influential framework for exploring event representation across languages.
Tusun Alimujiang, Hendriks Henriëtte
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Transitive phrasal verbs in acquisition and use: A view from construction grammar
Language Value, 2019 Author/s Beate Hampe Erfurt University, Germany ABSTRACT This paper surveys a number of aspects involved in viewing transitive phrasal verbs as verb-particle constructions in the construction-grammar sense of the term.
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Baltistica, 2011 ON SOME PROBLEMS OF HISTORICAL SYNTAX(IRANIAN PARALLELS TO THE BALTO-SLAVIC CONSTRUCTIONS„NOMINATIVUS CUM INFINITIVO”)SummaryThe constructions of the Russian „надо земля пахать”-type (containing the infinitive and the object in Nom.) find their parallels
Джой Иосифовна Эдельман
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