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Automatic translation of support verb constructions [PDF]
M. Gross (1981) calls such verbs 'support verbs', and I shall adopt his terminologLv. These verbs exhibit many interesting properties which have been studied systematically for several French support verbs: faire (make), avoir (have), prendre (take), etre (be), etc.
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Le lexique-grammaire de noms sous-spécifiés
Underspecified nouns (Nss), those that can appear in a specificational construction (1) of the form Leur ambition a été d’innover “Their ambition was to innovate”, are often also predicates governing arguments in an elementary sentence (2) of the form ...
Éric Laporte +2 more
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Mandarin tone 3 sandhi is a phonological alternation in which the initial tone 3 (i.e., low tone) syllable changes to a tone 2 (i.e., rising tone) when followed by another tone 3. The present study used a cross-modal syllable-morpheme matching experiment
Feier Gao +2 more
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English Verb-particle Constructions: Two Types, Two Structures
This paper proposes that resultative verb-particle constructions (VPCs) have an underlyingly different structure from idiomatic VPCs; both structures differ from the Small Clause analysis of Kayne (1985) et al and the verb-particle complex analysis of ...
Zoerner, Ed
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Support Verb Constructions across the Ocean Sea
This paper analyses the support (or light) verb constructions (SVC) in a publicly available, manually annotated corpus of multiword expressions (MWE) in Brazilian Portuguese. The paper highlights several issues in the linguistic definitions therein adopted for these types of MWE, and reports the results from applying STRING, a rule-based parsing system,
Baptista, Jorge +2 more
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El diccionario bilingüe español-francés como vehículo para el aprendizaje de las construcciones con verbo soporte [PDF]
Las construcciones con verbo soporte (CVS) son combinaciones semilexicalizadas compuestas por un nombre predicativo y un verbo soporte. Este fenómeno se ha estudiado desde distintas perspectivas, pero su tratamiento lexicográfico no se ha abordado con ...
Cruz Modesti, Hélène
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On the conceptual nature of hybrid adverbials in Isu
We review Kießling’s (2011) assessment of the emergence of hybrid adverbials from serial verb constructions in Isu of Bantoid and the Narrow Grassfield group of East Benue Congo. He posits two paths, preverbal and postverbal, that coverb elements follow
Ronald Schaefer, Francis O. Egbokhare
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Spatial verbs are demonstration verbs
The literature has been divided over the question of whether spatial verbs should be subsumed into a single verb class with agreement verbs. The main point of contention has been that, even if the nature of the elements that these verb types agree with ...
Marloes Oomen
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Paradigmatic relations in Construction Morphology: the case of Dutch Noun+Verb compounds
The formal and semantic properties of Noun+Verb compounds in Dutch can be accounted for by means of paradigmatically related word-constructional schemas.
Geert Booij
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Headedness and the Lexicon: The Case of Verb-to-Noun Ratios
This paper takes a well-known observation as its starting point, that is, languages vary with respect to headedness, with the standard head-initial and head-final types well attested.
Maria Polinsky, Lilla Magyar
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