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This document explains how to fill out the Light Verb Constructions page of the Grammar Matrix Customization questionnaire and presents background information on the light verb constructions library of the Grammar Matrix Customization System (Bender et al., 2002; Bender and Flickinger, 2005; Bender et al., 2010). General instructions on using the questionnaire can be found here.
The standard reference for the Light Verb Constructions library and its implementations is Wueger 2025. The full references and .bib entries can be found here.
You can indicate whether noun and/or verb coverbs are allowed in your language. This option is used to determine whether LVCs are possible in your language (therefore, if one of these options is not selected, this library will not function as intended). For example, Bardi allows both noun and verb coverbs (INSERT CITATION), so you would choose both options from the options provided below:
What possible coverbs are allowed in your language?
(selecting one or more of these options will allow you to add coverbs of that type to the lexicon)
[] Noun Coverbs
[] Verb Coverbs
If you select either of these options (or both), corresponding questions will appear that allow you to indicate if the noun/verb coverb can pick up dependents on its own. For a noun coverb, this includes determiners, modifiers, and complements. For verb coverbs, this includes a modifiers and complements. In X, INSERT EXAMPLE, so you would choose the X option for both questions shown below:
Can noun coverbs pick up dependents on their own (e.g. determiner, modifier, complement)?
() yes
() no
Can verb coverbs pick up dependents on their own (e.g. modifier, complement)?
() yes
() no
You can indicate where, with respect to the light verb, the coverb appears in your language. This can be before, after, or both before and after the light verb. For example, in X, INSERT EXAMPLE, so you would select the X option from the ones shown below:
The word order within an LVC is:
() The coverb is before the light verb
() The coverb is after the light verb
() The coverb can be before or after the light verb
You can also specify whether a coverb (or the constituent it heads) needs to be immediately adjacent to a light verb or if other elements (e.g. a subject or object) can intervene. For example, in X, INSERT EXAMPLE, so you would select the X option from the ones shown below:
Does a coverb (or the constituent it heads) have to be immediately adjacent to a light verb?
() yes
() no
What possible valence options are allowed for light verbs in your language?
[] A light verb can take just a coverb as an argument (i.e. intransitive)
[] A light verb can take a coverb plus an additional complement as arguments (i.e. transitive)
Are bleached (semantically empty) verbs possible in your language?
() yes
() no
Are all light verbs bleached in your language?
() yes
() no
Wueger, Tara. 2025. Modeling Light Verb Constructions in the LinGO Grammar Matrix. University of Washington MS Thesis. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/modeling-light-verb-constructions-lingo-grammar/docview/3230303431/se-2.
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bibtex:
@mastersthesis{wueger2025mastersthesis,
title = {{M}odeling {L}ight {V}erb {C}onstructions in the {LinGO} {G}rammar {M}atrix},
author = {Wueger, Tara},
year = {2025},
school = {University of Washington},
type = {MS Thesis},
url = {https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/modeling-light-verb-constructions-lingo-grammar/docview/3230303431/se-2},
}
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