The paper proposes a formal definition of support verb as (roughly) semantically empty serving syntactic “prop” to predicative noun such that the phrase V(support)(N) + N is synonymous with V0 derived form N: ‘V(support)(N) N’ = ‘V0(N)’, in ‘to give an order’ or receive be ordered’. following points are discussed: verbs collocates, representation terms lexical functions, semantic and properties...

In this paper we explore the hypothesis that constrained uses of imagination are crucial to economic modeling. We propose a theoretical framework develop thesis through number specific hypotheses test and refine six new, representative case studies. Our ultimate goal is philosophical account practice oriented informed by empirical evidence. To do this, deploy an abductive reasoning strategy. st...

One hundred and forty normal undergraduate students participated in a Proactive Interference (PI) experiment with sentences containing verbs from four different semantic and morphological classes (lexical causatives, morphological causatives, and morphologically complex and simplex perception verbs). Past research has shown significant PI build-up effects for semantically and morphologically co...

This paper introduces a preliminary work on Hindi causative verbs: their classification, a linguistic model for their classification and their verb frames. The main objective of this work is to come up with a classification of the Hindi causative verbs. In the classification we show how different types of Hindi verbs have different types of causative forms. It will be a linguistic resource for ...