Noms prédicatifs, noms de résultat et noms concrets dans les constructions à verbe support

Abstract

The paper aims to show that light verb constructions (LVC) are formed not only with predicative nouns, but also frequently with result nouns and some concrete nouns. We propose a quantitative verification of the hypothesis that in Czech, result nouns are at least as frequent in LVC as event nominalisations (“verbální substantiva”). The paper tries to explain reasons of this phenomenon and it shows the mechanism that allows concrete nouns to appear in LVC, not only in Czech, but also in French.

Support‐Verb Constructions with Objects:Greek‐CopticInterference in the Documentary Papyri?1

“…2010: 46). Here, we accept any noun that can be reconceptualised as eventive, for example, picture in to take a picture refers to the process resulting in the physical object (Radimský 2011) and heart in to take heart is metaphorically extended (Sheinfux et al. 2019).…”

‘I haven’t got a clue!’

“…Ambiguity however also exists between categories of multi-word expressions, e.g. to make a mistake is an SVC, but to make a meal of something is an idiom (Savary et al 2018: 88), as through abstraction, reconceptualization, or metaphorical extension of the meaning of the noun (meal), we cannot arrive at the meaning of the phrase (Radimský 2011), such that the noun is not the semantic head.…”

“…(1) applies these tests to three English SVCs, one with an abstract noun, one with a concrete noun, which in the SVC is reconceptualised to refer to the process resulting in the concrete object the noun otherwise refers to (Radimský 2011), and one with a noun that is metaphorically extended when used in the SVC.…”