Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: Argument structure sharing -- 1 Valency structure of complex predicates with Light Verbs -- 2 Unification and selection in Light Verb Constructions. A study of Norwegian -- Section 2: Event structure sharing -- 3 Persian Light Verbs as event determiners -- 4 Light Verb Constructions in Romance languages. An attempt to explain systematic irregularity -- 5 How light is 'give' as a Light Verb? A case study on the actionality of Latin Light Verb Constructions (with some references to Romance languages) -- 6 When lightness meets lexical aspect. A corpus-based account of English Light Verb Extensions -- Section 3: The verb fullness -- 7 Semantic Co-composition in Light Verb Constructions -- 8 On the unpredictability of Support Verbs. A distributional study of Spanish tomar -- 9 Making a move towards Ancient Greek Light Verb Constructions -- Section 4: The verb emptiness -- 10 Light Verbs and 'light nouns' in polysynthetic languages -- 11 A diachronic insight into the aspectual meaning in Light Verb Constructions. A case study in Mandarin Chinese -- 12 Light Verb Constructions in Latin. A study on (in) memoria and (in) animo habeo -- Index -- Index of languages