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"forms": [
{
"form": "light verbs",
"tags": [
"plural"
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}
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"name": "en-noun"
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
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"categories": [
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
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},
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
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"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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}
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"glosses": [
"A semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun."
],
"id": "en-light_verb-en-noun-G8o5WR9h",
"links": [
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"verb",
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],
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"complement",
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"noun",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) A semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vector verb"
},
{
"word": "delexical verb"
},
{
"word": "explicator verb"
},
{
"word": "thin verb"
},
{
"word": "empty verb"
}
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kategoriální sloveso"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"word": "funktioverbi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "verbe léger"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Funktionsverb"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apolexikopoiiméno ríma",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "απολεξικοποιημένο ρήμα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"word": "könnyűige"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"word": "funkcióige"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"word": "igésítő ige"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "funkcionálʹnyj glagól",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "функциона́льный глаго́л"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"word": "verbo ligero"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "funktionsverb"
}
]
}
],
"word": "light verb"
}
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"en:Linguistics"
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"glosses": [
"A semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun."
],
"links": [
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"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
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"semantically",
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],
[
"verb",
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],
[
"predicate",
"predicate"
],
[
"combination",
"combination"
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[
"predicative",
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],
[
"complement",
"complement"
],
[
"noun",
"noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) A semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vector verb"
},
{
"word": "delexical verb"
},
{
"word": "explicator verb"
},
{
"word": "thin verb"
},
{
"word": "empty verb"
}
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kategoriální sloveso"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"word": "funktioverbi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "verbe léger"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Funktionsverb"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apolexikopoiiméno ríma",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "απολεξικοποιημένο ρήμα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"word": "könnyűige"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"word": "funkcióige"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"word": "igésítő ige"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "funkcionálʹnyj glagól",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "функциона́льный глаго́л"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"word": "verbo ligero"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thematically incomplete verb",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "funktionsverb"
}
],
"word": "light verb"
}
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