Abstract. Light verb constructions (LVCs) have been studied not only in native Englishes, 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 are investigated in terms of frequency and complementation patterns.

Abstract. The aim of the present research is to make a contrastive analysis of that-deletion in complement that-clauses in English and Lithuanian on the basis of corpus data. All the data for analysis are collected from the British National Corpus and the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language. That-deletion in complement that-clauses is studied in terms of distribution across registers, the properties of the matrix verbs and the structural properties of the clauses.

Light verb constructions have been studied in different languages and from different perspectives by a number of scholars. The present research focuses on the constructions with light verbs have, get, and take followed by deverbal nouns a bath and a rest and attempts to answer the questions to what extent light verbs have, take, and get are interchangeable when followed by the same deverbal nouns and what influences their choice. The study aims at giving a qualitative analysis of the structures in question in British English on the basis of corpus data. All the data for analysis are collected from the BNC corpus. Constructions have/take/get a bath and have/take/get a rest are investigated in terms of grammatical and lexical features which include morphological forms, immediate collocations of deverbal nouns, combinability patterns as well as distribution across registers. The analysis shows that light verbs have, take, and get could be interchangeable in some situations as they have similar morphological forms, combinability patterns, collocations with adjectives, but show some differences in expressing modality and the distribution across registers.

The present research aims at giving a quantitative and qualitative analysis of semantic and syntactic properties of prototypically different light verb constructions with the synonymous deverbal nouns chat, talk, and conversation in British English. The constructions under investigation are studied in terms of combinability with different light verbs, complementation patterns, and adjectival modification. Data for the analysis are collected from the British National Corpus (BNC). The study reveals that prototypically different types of light verb constructions behave in a similar way in terms of the researched aspects. However, significant differences can be found when the deverbal nouns under investigation combine with different light verbs.