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cril-1341	Bonial, Claire	Précis of Take a Look at This! Form, Function, and Productivity of English Light Verb Constructions	2021	20	.pdf	application/pdf	5769	337	51	LIGHT VERB CONSTRUCTIONS English LVCs are an ideal case for studying integral issues of grammar as LVCs are SEMI- COMPOSITIONAL, SEMI-PRODUCTIVE constructions that tend to have semantically similar lexical verb counterparts (e.g., make an offer vs. offer) – a fact which runs contrary to assumptions in linguistic theories that two competing forms are rarely maintained in a language, unless they serve distinct purposes (Grice, 1975). Why do English LVCs exist alongside counterpart synthetic verbs, especially given that synthetic verbs are arguably the more efficient variant form (Zipf, 1949)?	cache/cril-1341.pdf	txt/cril-1341.txt