The interaction of light verbs and verb classes of Urdu
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The paper describes an attempt of identifying Urdu verb classes on the basis of the distribution of light verbs with different main verbs. We started with a frequency analysis of main + light verb sequences. The analysis of that data lead us to a thorough manual analysis of main + light verb sequences by using native speaker judgments. We focused on the three most frequent light verbs dE 'give', lE 'take' and jA 'go'. The verb classes were identified by considering acceptability/unacceptability of these light verbs with the main verbs. We identified some new classes. For example, we found that mental gain verbs e.g. samajH 'understand' are different from mental state verbs e.g. Dar 'fear'. The verb classes can also be used to disambiguate different senses of polysemous main verbs and different syntactical usages of the light verb forms.
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