A Statistical Approach to Persian Light Verb Constructions

Kim Gerdes (1) , Pollet Samvelian (2)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018
2 Mondes Iranien et Indien - UMR 7528

This article presents the linguistic bases of Persian light verb constructions and shows the corpus based construction of lists of collocates for some common Persian verbs. The proposed methods of corpus construction are language independent and the good results on a relatively small corpus of 20 million words confirms the power of association measures based on the hypergeometric distribution. The resulting lists show a graduation of lexicalization and the semantic homogeneity of some light verb subcategorization schemes which could be the reason for their wide usage.

Mots clés: Corpus; Persian; Light Verb Constructions; Statistics

Domaines: Linguistique

Kim Gerdes, Pollet Samvelian. A Statistical Approach to Persian Light Verb Constructions. 2008. ⟨halshs-00668547⟩