Light Verb Constructions as Complex Verbs : : Features, Typology and Function /

Light Verb Constructions as Complex Verbs : : Features, Typology and Function / / ed. by Anna Pompei, Lunella Mereu, Valentina Piunno.

The notion of light verb constructions has been traditionally related to the ‘insignificance’ of the verb, which is described as a grammatical item only codifying TAM system and ϕ-features, whereas the whole predicative content is thought to be conveyed by the noun. This book deals with the light ve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
De Pasquale, Noemi,
Di Salvo, Francesca,
Eshaghi, Mahdie,
Garcia, Marcos,
García Salido, Marcos,
Hellan, Lars,
Huang, Chu-Ren,
Ježek, Elisabetta,
Karimi-Doostan, Gholamhossein,
Kettnerová, Václava,
Lu, Lu,
Mastrofini, Roberta,
Mattissen, Johanna,
Mereu, Lunella,
Piunno, Valentina,
Pompei, Anna,
HerausgeberIn:
Mereu, Lunella,
Piunno, Valentina,
Pompei, Anna,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 364
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 372 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Argument structure sharing
  • 1 Valency structure of complex predicates with Light Verbs
  • 2 Unification and selection in Light Verb Constructions. A study of Norwegian
  • Section 2: Event structure sharing
  • 3 Persian Light Verbs as event determiners
  • 4 Light Verb Constructions in Romance languages. An attempt to explain systematic irregularity
  • 5 How light is ‘give’ as a Light Verb? A case study on the actionality of Latin Light Verb Constructions (with some references to Romance languages)
  • 6 When lightness meets lexical aspect. A corpus-based account of English Light Verb Extensions
  • Section 3: The verb fullness
  • 7 Semantic Co-composition in Light Verb Constructions
  • 8 On the unpredictability of Support Verbs. A distributional study of Spanish tomar
  • 9 Making a move towards Ancient Greek Light Verb Constructions
  • Section 4: The verb emptiness
  • 10 Light Verbs and ‘light nouns’ in polysynthetic languages
  • 11 A diachronic insight into the aspectual meaning in Light Verb Constructions. A case study in Mandarin Chinese
  • 12 Light Verb Constructions in Latin. A study on (in) memoria and (in) animo habeo
  • Index
  • Index of languages

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