Hybrid grammar

―A case study of the light verbs have / give―

Abstract

　　There are two predominant ways to describe sentence structures: from words and from patterns. I attempt to advocate hybrid grammar which is a combination between the advantage of word grammar and that of pattern grammar. Furthermore, hybrid grammar is a blend of the advantage of corpora and that of native speaker’s intuition. In my previous paper, I applied hybrid grammar to the light verbs have and take in order to exemplify that hybrid grammar is useful for description of sentence structures. In this paper, I insist that hybrid grammar reveals the features of event nouns which follow the light verbs have and take.