Jens Fleischhauer


2021

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Light Verb Constructions and Their Families - A Corpus Study on German ‘stehen unter’-LVCs
Jens Fleischhauer
Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2021)

The paper reports on a corpus study of German light verb constructions (LVCs). LVCs come in families which exemplify systematic interpretation patterns. The paper’s aim is to account for the properties determining these patterns on the basis of a corpus study on German LVCs of the type ‘stehen unter’ NP’ (‘stand under NP’).

2020

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Predicative multi-word expressions in Persian
Jens Fleischhauer
Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

2019

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Towards a Compositional Analysis of German Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) Combining Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) with Frame Semantics
Jens Fleischhauer | Thomas Gamerschlag | Laura Kallmeyer | Simon Petitjean
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers

Complex predicates formed of a semantically ‘light’ verbal head and a noun or verb which contributes the major part of the meaning are frequently referred to as ‘light verb constructions’ (LVCs). In the paper, we present a case study of LVCs with the German posture verb stehen ‘stand’. In our account, we model the syntactic as well as semantic composition of such LVCs by combining Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) with frames. Starting from the analysis of the literal uses of posture verbs, we show how the meaning components of the literal uses are systematically exploited in the interpretation of stehen-LVCs. The paper constitutes an important step towards a compositional and computational analysis of LVCs. We show that LTAG allows us to separate constructional from lexical meaning components and that frames enable elegant generalizations over event types and related constraints.