Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Section 1: Argument structure sharing
5. 1 Valency structure of complex predicates with Light Verbs 19
6. 2 Unification and selection in Light Verb Constructions. A study of Norwegian 45
7. Section 2: Event structure sharing
8. 3 Persian Light Verbs as event determiners 73
9. 4 Light Verb Constructions in Romance languages. An attempt to explain systematic irregularity 99
10. 5 How light is ‘give’ as a Light Verb? A case study on the actionality of Latin Light Verb Constructions (with some references to Romance languages) 149
11. 6 When lightness meets lexical aspect. A corpus-based account of English Light Verb Extensions 201
12. Section 3: The verb fullness
13. 7 Semantic Co-composition in Light Verb Constructions 221
14. 8 On the unpredictability of Support Verbs. A distributional study of Spanish tomar 239
15. 9 Making a move towards Ancient Greek Light Verb Constructions 257
16. Section 4: The verb emptiness
17. 10 Light Verbs and ‘light nouns’ in polysynthetic languages 275
18. 11 A diachronic insight into the aspectual meaning in Light Verb Constructions. A case study in Mandarin Chinese 305
19. 12 Light Verb Constructions in Latin. A study on (in) memoria and (in) animo habeo 337
20. Index 361
21. Index of languages 371