Light verbs : Synchronic and diachronic studies /

Light verbs are semantically reduced verbs that simultaneously exhibit a heavy verb usage. The papers collected in this volume examine light verbs from different perspectives in various languages, including several Romance and Germanic languages such as Italian, Spanish, Catalan, German, and English...

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Other Authors:	Alvarez-Morera, Georgina (Contributor), Fleischhauer, Jens (Contributor, Editor), Ginebra, Jordi (Contributor), Kishimoto, Hideki (Contributor), Kuo, Pei-Jung (Contributor), Masini, Francesca (Contributor), Nicoletti, David (Contributor), Oltra-Massuet, Isabel (Contributor), Pisciotta, Flavio (Contributor), Riccio, Anna (Contributor, Editor), Stojanovska-Ilievska, Natasha (Contributor), Sundquist, John (Contributor), Wiskandt, Niklas (Contributor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Dsseldorf : düsseldorf university press, [2025]
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb. Grammatiktheorie. Hilfsverb. Korpus ‹Linguistik›. Syntax. Verbe (Linguistique) Auxiliary verb. corpus linguistics. grammar theory. syntax. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
List of abbreviations
Introduction to the volume
A corpus-based study of the English light verb constructions with give denoting bodily actions and physical interaction
The GIVE group of the Mandarin light verbs
Modification in give light verb constructions
Light verb constructions with experiencer objects in Germanic and Romance
A paradigm of psych-predicates
Taking a closer look at light verb constructions in the history of American English
Constructional semantics of Italian light verb constructions
On the light verb construction in Japanese
Index