Syntactic variation 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 ...

Linguistically enriched corpora for establishing variation in support verb constructions

Many NLP tasks that require syntactic analysis necessitate an accurate description of the lexical components, morpho-syntactic constraints and the semantic idiosyncracies of fixed expressions. (Moon, 1998) and (Riehemann, 2001) show that many fixed expressions and idioms allow limited variation and modification inside their complementation. This paper discusses to what extent a corpus-based met...

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...

A Formal Specification of Support Verb Constructions

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...