Automatic Extraction of Semantic Roles in Support Verb Constructions

Automatic translation of support verb constructions

M. Gross (1981) calls such verbs 'support verbs', and I shall adopt his terminologLv. These verbs exhibit many interesting properties which have been studied systematically for several French support verbs: faire (make), avoir (have), prendre (take), etre (be), etc. An examination of the results indicates that support verb,; must be taken into account in the parser and in the lexicon of a progr...

Nominalizations in German Support Verb Constructions

Nominalizations in German Support Verb Constructions Angelika Storrer TU Dortmund ___________________________________________________________________________ Support verb constructions (SVC), such as to take a risk or to set into motion, are composed of a support verb (SV, e.g. take, set) and a predicative noun (PredN, e.g. risk, motion), which is – in most cases – a nominalization of a verb or...

A Formal Specification of Support Verb Constructions

Syntactic variation of support verb constructions

Syntactic Variation of Support Verb Constructions We report experiments about the syntactic variations of support verb constructions, a special type ofmultiword expressions (MWEs) containing predicative nouns. In these expressions, the noun can oc-cur with or without the verb, with no clear-cut semantic difference. We extracted from a large Frenchcorpus a set of examples of the two ...

Event Structure and Support Verb Constructions

Support Verb Constructions (SVCs) pose interesting problems because of their mixed nature, with idiomatic properties in the sense that they do not seem to comply with general rules, and yet displaying a large number of regularities. The problems we will be concerned with in this paper are the following: • What is event structure, and how is expressed in SVCs? • What verbs may function as suppor...