Complementation of light verb constructions in world Englishness: a corpus-based study
Complementation of light verb constructions in world Englishness: a corpus-based study
Author(s): Judita GiparaitėSubject(s): Lexis, Semantics, Computational linguistics
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: light verb constructions; deverbal noun; corpus based analysis; English varieties; frequency analysis; complementation patterns;
Summary/Abstract: Light verb constructions (LVCs) have been studied not only in native Englishness, but also in a number of non-native varieties. The present research focuses on the constructions with the light verbs have, get, give, make, and do combined with the deverbal noun laugh. The study aims at giving a descriptive analysis of the structures in question in twenty English varieties on the basis of corpus data. All the data for analysis are collected from the GloWbE corpus. Constructions have/get/give a laugh is investigated in terms of frequency and complementation patterns.
Journal: Žmogus ir žodis
- Issue Year: 18/2016
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 19-39
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English
