Syntactic variation of support verb constructions
Computation and Language
2009-02-19 v1
Abstract
We report experiments about the syntactic variations of support verb constructions, a special type of multiword expressions (MWEs) containing predicative nouns. In these expressions, the noun can occur with or without the verb, with no clear-cut semantic difference. We extracted from a large French corpus a set of examples of the two situations and derived statistical results from these data. The extraction involved large-coverage language resources and finite-state techniques. The results show that, most frequently, predicative nouns occur without a support verb. This fact has consequences on methods of extracting or recognising MWEs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0902.3072,
title = {Syntactic variation of support verb constructions},
author = {Eric Laporte and Elisabete Ranchhod and Anastasia Yannacopoulou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3072},
year = {2009}
}