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

Francesca Franzon, Nicolas Rosàs Gómez, Leo Wanner

Frequent 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 cake'. Whe…