light verb

English

Noun

light verb (plural light verbs)

1. (linguistics) A semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun.

   Synonyms: vector verb, delexical verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb

Translations

thematically incomplete verb

• French: verbe léger (fr) m
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See also

• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Further reading

• light verb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “light verb”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.