A Corpus of Light Verb Constructions in Persian

A linguistic corpus is a collection of linguistic data derived from language texts, which represent the real patterns of language use to the researchers. The priority of the corpus over other linguistic resources stems from the amount of data it represents and the possibility of computer use in linguistic studies. In the present study, an annotated monolingual linguistic corpus of Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) of Persian language (LCP) developed by the authors was introduced. The corpus contained more than 6000 LVCs, which were used in more than 2000000 linguistic contexts. Just a comparison of the number of LVCs with the number of simple verbs in Persian is enough to indicate the importance of these types of language resources. This annotated corpus presented LVCs formed by 21 Persian Light Verbs (LVs) that are used in real contexts. This unprecedented work has the capacity to easily provide a large computational bulk of various data for the researchers to assess the existing hypotheses and put forward the new ones.