Morphosemantic Features of Mengambil ‘Take’ in the Light Verb Constructions of Indonesian

Abstract

Light verb constructions (LVCs) are the compositional form of a verb and a noun. The construction is usually denoting an idiomatic meaning. This study aimed at identifying and describing the morphosemantic feature of the verb mengambil ‘take’ in the Indonesian LVCs. This study has been done by utilizing semantics and morphology as the theoretical framework. The study data has been collected from three reputable corpora, namely LCCI, SEAlang, and KBBI. It has been done by using the UDPipe for tokenization, tagging, lemmatization, and dependency. This study's results show at least three main features of the verb mengambil, ‘take’ in the Indonesian LVCs based on the morphosemantics analysis. The three attributes are: (i) the first is regarding the verb type of ACTION, (ii) the second is about the semantic role of argument, namely AGENT of ARGUMENT-S, and (iii) the last is regarding the grammatical meaning of RESULTATIVE. It has been suggested to conduct an analysis on the other possibility of sense in Indonesian LVCs.