The Treatment of Support Verbs and Predicative Nouns in Danish
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This paper will be a short examination of the notions of support verbs (e.g. ‘make’) and predicative nouns (e.g. ‘estimation’ ). A support verb and a predicative noun form a support verb construction (e.g. ‘Peter made an estimation of the damage’). The governing element in a support verb construction is the predicative noun whereas in a phrase like ‘Peter wanted an estimation of the damage’ , the verb is the governing element. The main criteria for identifying support verb constructions as well as some of their properties will be mentioned. From a translational point of view problems are likely to arise if support verb constructions are treated compositionally as the choice of support verb for a given predicative noun in the target language is not predictable from the source language support verb.
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