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    According to linguistics, a hot verb or light verb has little semantic content itself and forms a predicate with an additional expression, usually a noun. Common hot verbs in English include do, give, have, make, get, and take. Hot verb constructions challenge theories of compositionality because the combinations do not qualify as constituents but do qualify as catenae. Most hot verb constructions in English include a noun, sometimes called stretched verbs, and some include a preposition like "of" or "from". The hot verb contributes little meaning to the sentence, with the main meaning coming from the noun it combines with.

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    According to linguistics, a hot verb or light verb has little semantic content itself and forms a predicate with an additional expression, usually a noun. Common hot verbs in English include do, give, have, make, get, and take. Hot verb constructions challenge theories of compositionality because the combinations do not qualify as constituents but do qualify as catenae. Most hot verb constructions in English include a noun, sometimes called stretched verbs, and some include a preposition like "of" or "from". The hot verb contributes little meaning to the sentence, with the main meaning coming from the noun it combines with.

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    According to linguistics, a hot verb or light verb has little semantic content itself and forms a predicate with an additional expression, usually a noun. Common hot verbs in English include do, give, have, make, get, and take. Hot verb constructions challenge theories of compositionality because the combinations do not qualify as constituents but do qualify as catenae. Most hot verb constructions in English include a noun, sometimes called stretched verbs, and some include a preposition like "of" or "from". The hot verb contributes little meaning to the sentence, with the main meaning coming from the noun it combines with.

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    According to linguistics, a hot verb or light verb has little semantic content itself and forms a predicate with an additional expression, usually a noun. Common hot verbs in English include do, give, have, make, get, and take. Hot verb constructions challenge theories of compositionality because the combinations do not qualify as constituents but do qualify as catenae. Most hot verb constructions in English include a noun, sometimes called stretched verbs, and some include a preposition like "of" or "from". The hot verb contributes little meaning to the sentence, with the main meaning coming from the noun it combines with.

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    Hot verbs

    According to COLLINS (1995), In linguistics, a hot verb is a verb that has little semantic content of its own
    and forms a predicate with some additional expression, which is usually a noun. Common verbs in
    English that can function as light verbs are do, give, have, make, get, and take. Other names for hot
    verbs include light verb, delexical verb, vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb and
    semantically weak verb. While hot verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their contribution of
    meaning to the clauses in which they appear, hot verbs fail the diagnostics that identify auxiliary verbs
    and are therefore distinct from auxiliaries.

    Hot verb constructions challenge theories of compositionality because the words that form such
    constructions do not together qualify as constituents although the word combinations qualify as
    catenae. JESPERSEN, O (1965).

    Examples of hot verbs

    To OSBORNE (2012), Most hot verb constructions in English include a noun and are sometimes called
    stretched verbs. Some light verb constructions also include a preposition, e.g.

     They did the review of my paper first.


     Sam did the cleaning yesterday.
     Who got such intense criticism?
     Susan is getting much support from her family.
     I am going to have a nice nap.
     She had a smoke.
     We had a slow, boring conversation.
     Are you giving a presentation at the conference?
     They gave the kids a hard time.
     Who will give you a hug?
     Who made such a severe mistake?
     I made the first request.
     Sam has taken a shower.
     Why is Larry taking a nap?
     We should take a break soon.
     Have you taken advantage of that opportunity.
     I haven't taken that into consideration.

    The hot verbs are underlined, and the words in bold together constitute the hot verb constructions.
    Each of these constructions is the (primary part of the) main predicate of the sentence. Note that the
    determiner a is usually NOT part of the light verb construction. We know that it is not part of the hot
    verb construction because it is variable, e.g. I took a long/the first/two/the best nap. The hot verb
    contributes little content to its sentence; the main meaning resides with the noun in bold.

    Bibliographic References

    Collins Cobuild English Grammar 1995. London: HarperCollins Publishers.

    Jespersen, O. 1965. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Part VI, Morphology. London:
    George Allen and Unwin Ltd.

    Osborne, T. and T. Groß 2012. Constructions are catenae: Construction Grammar meets Dependency
    Grammar. Cognitive Linguistics 23, 1, 163–214.

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