Complementation of Light Verb Constructions in World Englishes: A Corpus-based Study

Giparaitė, Judita

doi:10.15823/zz.2016.14

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“…Investigations on the complementation of light verb constructions are rather diverse. Some of them focus on the contribution of the light verb and the deverbal noun to the selection of complements (Huddleston, Pullum, 2010;Wittenberg, 2014;Bruening, 2015), while others deal with the variety of complements taken by different light verbs (Muk-herjee, 2010;Hoffman et al, 2011;Bernaisch, 2015), and yet others study complementation patterns of LVCs (Giparaitė, 2016). The latter research describes complementation patterns of LVCs in twenty English varieties and reveals that LVCs with the light verb have select the largest number of complement patterns and take complements in more English varieties under investigation than LVCs with the verbs get and give (ibid).…”

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Tekstyno duomenimis pagrįstas britų anglų kalbos konstrukcijų su veiksmažodiniais daiktavardžiais CHAT, TALK ir CONVERSATION tyrimas

Giparaitė¹,

Balčiūtė²

2019

Žmogus Ir Žodis

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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.

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Tekstyno duomenimis pagrįstas britų anglų kalbos konstrukcijų su veiksmažodiniais daiktavardžiais CHAT, TALK ir CONVERSATION tyrimas

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Balčiūtė²

2019

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“…The second research examines the complementation of light verb constructions with the deverbal noun laugh (Giparaitė, 2016). The deverbal noun laugh is analyzed in combination with high frequency light verbs have, get, give, make, and do in terms of frequency and complementation patterns in twenty English varieties: New Zealand, Canadian, Singaporean, New Zealand, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Philippine, Ghanaian, Kenyan, South African, North American, Jamaican, Tanzanian, Hong Kong, Malaysian, Nigerian, British, Australian, Irish, and American English.…”

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Participants of Material Processes in Grammatical Metaphors Involving the Verbs Make and Take

Ismail¹

2020

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This article, based on the transitivity system in a systemic functional linguistic study, is focused on the participants of material processes in grammatical metaphors involving the verbs Make and Take. The objective of this study is to analyze how the participants play a significant role in determining the processes of grammatical metaphors in the clauses. The data were taken from the Corpus of Contemporary American English from 2015 to 2017. The qualitative method was employed since the data were in the form of words rather than numbers. The result of this research showed that the participants of material processes are actors and scopes rather than actors and goals as they commonly occur in material processes. Scopes are represented in the clause since the processes of doing are expressed only by the participants. However, in the congruent forms, the participants of material processes are actors and goals since their participants are expressed as �things� rather than expressing the process of doing as they occur in the non-congruent forms termed as grammatical metaphors.Keywords: grammatical metaphor; congruent; non-congruent; material processes; participant; goal; scope.

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Nativised structural patterns of make light verb construction in Malaysian English

Ong

Rahim

2021

ConSL

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This study investigated nativised structural patterns of light verb constructions (LVCs) in Malaysian English using a corpus-based, descriptive approach to analyse grammatical innovations. To facilitate the analysis, a 100-million-word general corpus comprising threads from Lowyat.Net, a popular Internet forum in Malaysia, was created, and the British National Corpus (BNC) was used as the reference corpus. Using the Sketch Engine corpus tool, the three most frequently occurring make LVCs in the Malaysian English corpus were identified. The data was analysed to reveal the differences between the structures of make LVC in Malaysian English and its prototypical structure. The findings show that besides the non-isomorphic deverbal noun form, make LVCs in Malaysian English prefer taking the basic constituents of an LVC. Nativised LVCs are essentially those with zero articles and isomorphic deverbal nouns taking definite articles, determiners, and descriptive adjectives in their modifier slots. The zero article LVC is the most common nativised structure pattern due to the influence of substrate languages in Malaysian English.

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Complementation of Light Verb Constructions in World Englishes: A Corpus-based Study

Cited by 25 publications

References 10 publications

Tekstyno duomenimis pagrįstas britų anglų kalbos konstrukcijų su veiksmažodiniais daiktavardžiais CHAT, TALK ir CONVERSATION tyrimas

Tekstyno duomenimis pagrįstas britų anglų kalbos konstrukcijų su veiksmažodiniais daiktavardžiais CHAT, TALK ir CONVERSATION tyrimas

Participants of Material Processes in Grammatical Metaphors Involving the Verbs Make and Take

Nativised structural patterns of make light verb construction in Malaysian English

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