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A linguistic test battery for support verb constructions

Lingvisticae Investigationes, 2005
Semi-compositional verb–noun constructions have been investigated under various labels in the different linguistic traditions. In this article we start from the quite well defined notion of support verb construction to present a battery of linguistic tests to distinguish truly semi-compositional constructions from semantically compositional verb–noun ...
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Infinitival and Gerund-Participial Catenative Complement Constructions in English World-Wide

Languages
Previous research on non-finite catenative complementation (for example, start Ving/to V; force NP into Ving/to V) has largely been restricted to BrE and/or AmE.
Peter Craig Collins
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UNO SGUARDO ALLA DIDATTICA DEL LESSICO FRA SCUOLA SUPERIORE E UNIVERSITÀ

Italiano LinguaDue
L’articolo prende l’avvio da alcuni errori lessicali in attività esercitative di studenti universitari (prevalentemente del primo anno) che devono colmare delle lacune attraverso la frequenza di un laboratorio di scrittura.
Paola Marinetto
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Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek

Synopsis: This volume brings together corpora that span more than 3,000 years of the history of the Greek language, from Ittzés' chapter on the proto-language to Giouli's chapter on the modern language. The authors take wider or narrower approaches with regard to the form and function of the type of construction that they include in the group of ...
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Constructions à verbes supports, collocations et locutions verbales

, 2008
Il s'agit de montrer que les trois concepts correspondent à trois réalités linguistiques différentes et de dégager les caractéristiques qui les distinguent pour en permettre une description fondée sur des critères formels relevant de la syntaxe libre et de la syntaxe figée. Si les constructions à verbes supports relèvent de la combinatoire libre et que
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Šalutiniai pažyminio sakiniai: kodėl vaikams sunku juos suprasti? | Relative clauses: why children have difficulties to comprehend them? [PDF]

Kalbotyra, 2014
The study aims to describe and interpret the results of testing the speech of Lithuanian children in order to find out whether language-specific features of Lithuanian as a highly inflected language help children grasp the complex syntactic relations ...
Ineta Dabašinskienė, Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė   +1 more
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Variability in L2 learning: insights from verb phrase ellipsis in Greek learners of English

Glossa
This study investigates variability in second language learning. It contributes new data to the ongoing discussion on whether L2 learners can acquire grammatical phenomena that are absent from their L1.
Marina Kolokonte, Vikki Janke
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Corpus-based Investigations on German Support Verb Constructions

, 2007
Support verb constructions (SVC) like 'take a risk' or 'set into motion' are composed of a verb component ('take', 'set') and a noun component ('risk', 'motion'). The noun component is typically a nominalization of a verb or an adjective. The verb component is semantically reduced, when compared to its main verb meaning.
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Support Verb Constructions with Predicate Noun in Subject Position

, 2022
Support Verb Constructions (SVC), such as 'make a statement, take a walk, have a fever, be of some importance, give a cry,' etc. are verb-noun predicative combinations formed by a predicate noun and a support verb. Several syntactic properties distinguish SVC from ordinary verb-noun combinations, where the verb is a distributional (or full) verb.
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Intégration des constructions à verbe support dans TimeML

, 2009
TimeML is a markup language developed for the annotation of temporal information in texts, in particular events, temporal expressions and the relations which hold between the two. General annotation guidelines have been developed to guide the annotator in this task, but certain linguistic phenomena have yet to be dealt with in detail.
Bittar, André, Danlos, Laurence
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