The various types of verbo nominal complex predicates in Hindi/Urdu can ba classified according to 1) the relation between verb and noun, 2) the construction of the external argument. These formations, which behave as diathesis shifters (by shift of light verbs "be"/"have") along with Aktionsart finer markers than in simplex predicates, result from a massive importation of Persian and Arabic predicative notions, recategorized as nouns, and the subsequent renewal of the verbal lexicon, whose consequence was the emergence of non-canonical subjects and semantic alignments.
