Resumen de Valence behavior of an IncepOper1 verb in Japanese
This paper examines valence behavior of the Japanese light verb hajimeru 'begin', which in terms of Meaning-Text theory can be considered a lexical function verb of the type IncepOper1. The verb was studied in construction with predicate nouns (450 occurrences in news texts). The results confirm that a noun's first argument is transferred to hajimeru, but its second argument, if present, is not, nor are sentential complements. Other arguments may occur with either hajimeru or the noun more or less equally. However, adjuncts of place and especially time are nearly always transferred to the verb.
