Processing the Mixed Properties of Light Verb Constructions

  • Jong-Bok Kim
  • Kyung-Sup Lim
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4488)

Abstract

One of the most widely used constructions in Korean is the so-called light verb construction (LVC) involving an active-denoting verbal noun (VN) together with the light verb ha-ta ‘do’. This paper first discusses the argument composition of the LVC, mixed properties of VNs which have provided a challenge to syntactic analyses with a strict version of X-bar theory. The paper shows the mechanism of multiple classification of category types with systematic inheritance can provide an effective way of capturing these mixed properties. An implementation of the analysis within the LKB (Linguistics Knowledge Building) system proves its feasibility and efficiency.

Keywords

Argument Structure External Argument Common Noun Mixed Property Complex Predicate 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jong-Bok Kim
    • 1
  • Kyung-Sup Lim
    • 2
  1. 1.School of English, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 130-701Korea
  2. 2.Dept. of English and Tourism, Dongsin University, 520-714Korea

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