Complex predicates, or compound verbs, constitute a major portion of verbal forms in the Persian language. They are normally formed using a noun, adjective, preposition, or prepositional phrase, followed by a light verb. Unlike many other languages that employ such constructions, Persian allows the two components to become separated. This paper will investigate where complex predicates syntacti...

Complex predicates are a highly salient feature of Korean sentences, and consequently have received a great deal of attention in the linguistic literature. As there have been many excellent papers written on aspects of the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic relationships between the parts of many di erent kinds of complex predicates, it is quite a daunting task to take up the general topic of c...

The correspondence and restriction based approach to machine translation of Kaplan et al (1989) is expanded in Kaplan and Wedekind (1993) to include a treatment of complex predicates. Complex predicates pose the kind of problem usually described under \head-switching" because their syntax and semantics are non-isomorphic. Ka-plan and Wedekind's (1993) solution involves a restriction operator in...