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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"light verb"”.
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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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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 event structure of light verbs
This dissertation systematically investigates how light verbs contribute to eventstructure across three, typologically different languages: English, Hindi-Urdu, and Korean. I first show that light verbs across the three languages vary in their structural position and function. English light verbs …
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Acquisition of Causative Directed Manner of Motion by English-speaking Learners of Chinese
… and intransitive use of manner of motion verbs share similar syntactic structures in English, for example, John walked Mary to her car., John kicked the ball to the wall., their counterparts in Chinese display distinctively different surface structures. As a result of my dissatisfaction …
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Case and Phi-agreement in Laki: Parametrizing split-ergativity in Kurdish
… with complex predicates formed by a transitive light verb (a light verb whose heavy verb counterpart is transitive), where we see the ergative pattern with transitives, unaccusatives and unergatives. I further propose that the Erg head selects for a phrase bearing [+ANTERIOR] and [+TRANSITIVE] …
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Voice, Case and the External Argument: The perspective from Urdu
… 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, both in Urdu and …
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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 …