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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Light Verb Constructions"”.
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With Light Verb Constructions from Syntax to Concepts
… uses a common grammatical phenomenon, light verb constructions (LVCs) in English and German, to investigate how syntax-semantics mapping defaults influence the relationships between language processing, representation and conceptualization. LVCs are analyzed as a phenomenon of mismatch …
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The Light Verb Construction in Korean
Light verb constructions have been treated as a relevant linguistic topic because they show unique characteristics that are not found in other verb constructions in Korean. Thus, previous studies are mainly focused on specific characteristics: (i) the relationship between light verbs and v and (ii) …
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Voice, Case and the External Argument: The perspective from Urdu
… other phenomena, such as agreement, applicative constructions, light verb constructions, and ergative case assignment, are also presented as part of the discussion. The dissertation leaves us with big-picture questions surrounding the functional role of Voice, and the typology of Voice heads, …
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English complex verb constructions: identification and inference
… of MWEs, this dissertation focuses on English verb related MWEs, constructs stochastic models to identify these complex verb predicates within the given context and discusses empirically the significance of this MWE recognition component in the context of Textual Entailment (TE), an intricate …