Light verb
IN GRAMMAR, A VERB PARTICIPATING IN COMPLEX PREDICATION
Vector verb; Explicator verb; Light Verb Constructions; Light verb construction
In linguistics, a light verb is a verb that has little semantic content of its own and forms a predicate with some additional expression, which is usually a noun.Concerning light verbs in general, see Jespersen (1965, Volume VI:117), Grimshaw and Mester (1988), and especially Butt (2003:paper attached).