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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"light verbs"”.
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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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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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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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Heads and Adjuncts: an experimental study of subextraction from participials and coordination in English, German and Norwegian
… syntactic behaviour, such as the use of light verbs to derive transparency in complex verb constructions. This thesis shows that such accounts are empirically inadequate and argues that the relationship between heads and adjuncts provides a more empirically-satisfactory model of modifying …
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Small Clauses in Swedish : Towards a Unified Account
… projections of the functional categorial head of verbs (v°), adjectives (a°), or prepositions (p°), providing a proposition in the small clause; Swedish does not have small clauses based on the functional categorial head of nouns (n°). In the minimalist program that constitutes the theoretical …