Light or Full Verb? A Minimal-Pair Dataset for Probing Phraseological Competence in Language Models

Francesca Franzon, Nicolas Rosàs Gómez, Leo Wanner

Frequent English verbs such as 'have' and 'make' can function either as collocates in light-verb constructions or as full lexical predicates, as in 'make a decision' vs. 'make a ca…