Light Verb Constructions as Complex Verbs: Features, Typology and Function

Contents\nIntroduction\nSection 1: Argument structure sharing\n1 Valency structure of complex predicates with Light Verbs\n2 Unification and selection in Light Verb Constructions. A study of Norwegian\nSection 2: Event structure sharing\n3 Persian Light Verbs as event determiners\n4 Light Verb Constructions in Romance languages. An attempt to explain systematic irregularity\n5 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)\n6 When lightness meets lexical aspect. A corpus-based account of English Light Verb Extensions\nSection 3: The verb fullness\n7 Semantic Co-composition in Light Verb Constructions\n8 On the unpredictability of Support Verbs. A distributional study of Spanish tomar\n9 Making a move towards Ancient Greek Light Verb Constructions\nSection 4: The verb emptiness\n10 Light Verbs and ‘light nouns’ in polysynthetic languages\n11 A diachronic insight into the aspectual meaning in Light Verb Constructions. A case study in Mandarin Chinese\n12 Light Verb Constructions in Latin. A study on (in) memoria and (in) animo habeo\nIndex\nIndex of languages