The study of light verbs and complex predicates is frought with dangers and misunderstandings that go beyond the merely terminological. This paper attempts to pic through the terminological, theoretical and empirical jungle in order to arrive at a novel understanding of the role of light verbs crosslinguistically. In particular, this paper addresses how light verbs and complex predicates can be...

The linguistic annotation of noun-verb complex predicates (also termed as light verb constructions) is challenging as these predicates are highly productive in Hindi. For semantic role labelling, each argument of the noun-verb complex predicate must be given a role label. For complex predicates, frame files need to be created specifying the role labels for each noun-verb complex predicate. The ...

In this paper, I propose an analysis of Persian complex predicates, based on the First Phase Verbal syntax developed by Ramchand (2008). I suggest that the light verbs lexicalize the subevent heads into which the verbal phrase is decomposed, while the preverbal element occupies the Rheme position and semantically unifies with the light verb to build one joint predication. Further, I propose a f...

the category of verb as the nucleus of sentence has a significant importance in grammar. this grammatical category has specific semantic and syntactic characteristics in different languages. in role and reference grammar as a functional grammar, predicates are classified into five classes including states, activities, achievements, accomplishments and active-accomplishments. these five classes ...

predicates are words or groups of words which are considered as the most important semantic elements of the sentence. following manouilidou, almeida, schwartz and nair, this research investigates the nature of verb disorder in persian alzheimer patients. to this end, the property of thematic role assignment by three kinds of predicates has been focused upon. the first kind of predicates include...

An analysis that defines predicates for Wordnet verb classes and links them to semantic interpretation is presented. The selectional restrictions for the thematic roles defining the predicates are WordNet ontological categories. Thematic roles are also linked to the syntactic relations that realize them. The paper illustrates the methodology by providing a detailed analysis of some major WordNe...