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In this paper, we provide a well-founded description of Czech deverbal nouns in both nominal and verbal structures (light verb constructions), based on a complex interaction between the lexicon and the grammar. We show that light verb constructions result from a regular syntactic operation. We introduce two interlinked valency lexicons, NomVallex and VALLEX, demonstrating how to minimize the size of lexicon entries while allowing for the generation of well-formed nominal and verbal structures of deverbal nouns.
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We refer here to the obligatoriness on the tectogrammatical layer, i.e., on the deep syntactic layer; while being subject to different types of ellipsis on the surface layer, obligatory complementations are still present on the tectogrammatical layer.
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In the labels for morphemic forms, nom, gen, dat, acc, loc and instr stand for the cases, inf stands for an infinitive, poss stands for possessive adjectives and possessive noun forms, and dcc indicates the dependent content clause.
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The instances of deverbal nouns governed by the verb být ‘to be’, representing a copula verb, were left aside.
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The research reported in the paper was supported by the Czech Science Foundation under the projects GA15-09979S and GA16-02196S and partially by the LINDAT/CLARIN project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (project LM2015071).
This work has been using language resources developed, stored and distributed by the LINDAT/CLARIN project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (project LM2015071).
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Kettnerová, V., Kolářová, V., Vernerová, A. (2017). Deverbal Nouns in Czech Light Verb Constructions. In: Mitkov, R. (eds) Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology. EUROPHRAS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10596. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69805-2_15
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