Verb-Noun compounds in English can be classified into endocentric compounds and exocentric ones. Among exocentric Verb …-Noun compounds, two types of constructions are very common:  ?Verb + Object = Agent? construction and ?Verb + Object =Instrument … covert. And one slight difference between ?Verb + Object = Agent? construction and ?Verb + Object =Instrument? construction …

The Russian subjunctive particle by can be used in constructions that lack any finite verb form, including …

impact of the syntactic function of a verb in the sentence on the complex network structure. Verbs play the decisive role in … (“global” importance). The importance of verb in the complex network is assessed by the number of links which are directed from … the node representing verb to other nodes in the network. Six languages (Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian …

, for the purposes of this paper we set up four different tests to identify knowledge of the English verb phrase among …