Semantic Verb Classes and Regularity of Voice Paradigms in Tagalog

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 480-499
Author(s):  
Sergei B. Klimenko ◽  
Divine Angeli P. Endriga
Keyword(s):  
Verb Classes ◽  
Semantic Verb Classes

scholarly journals Inducing frame semantic verb classes from WordNet and LDOCE

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Green ◽  
Bonnie J. Dorr ◽  
Philip Resnik
Keyword(s):  
Verb Classes ◽  
Semantic Verb Classes

scholarly journals Experiments on the Automatic Induction of German Semantic Verb Classes

2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Schulte im Walde
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Verb Classes ◽  
Technical Parameters ◽  
Evaluation Measures ◽  
Established Relationship ◽  
Verb Meaning ◽  
Grammar Model ◽  
Semantic Verb Classes

This article presents clustering experiments on German verbs: A statistical grammar model for German serves as the source for a distributional verb description at the lexical syntax-semantics interface, and the unsupervised clustering algorithm k-means uses the empirical verb properties to perform an automatic induction of verb classes. Various evaluation measures are applied to compare the clustering results to gold standard German semantic verb classes under different criteria. The primary goals of the experiments are (1) to empirically utilize and investigate the well-established relationship between verb meaning and verb behavior within a cluster analysis and (2) to investigate the required technical parameters of a cluster analysis with respect to this specific linguistic task. The clustering methodology is developed on a small-scale verb set and then applied to a larger-scale verb set including 883 German verbs.

scholarly journals Reconstructing constructional semantics

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jóhanna Barðdal ◽  
Thomas Smitherman ◽  
Valgerður Bjarnadóttir ◽  
Serena Danesi ◽  
Gard B. Jenset ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Verb Classes ◽  
Semantic Map ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Dative Subject ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Semantic Verb Classes

As the historical linguistic community is well aware, reconstructing semantics is a notoriously difficult undertaking. Such reconstruction has so far mostly been carried out on lexical items, like words and morphemes, and has not been conducted for larger and more complex linguistic units, which intuitively seems to be a more intricate task, especially given the lack of methodological criteria and guidelines within the field. This follows directly from the fact that most current theoretical frameworks are not construction-based, that is, they do not assume that constructions are form-meaning correspondences. In order to meet this challenge, we present an attempt at reconstructing constructional semantics, and more precisely the semantics of the Dative Subject Construction for an earlier stage of Indo-European. For this purpose we employ lexical semantic verb classes in combination with the semantic map model (Barðdal 2007, Barðdal, Kristoffersen & Sveen 2011), showing how incredibly stable semantic fields may remain across long time spans, and how reconstructing such semantic fields may be accomplished.

scholarly journals Semantic Constraints on Light Verb Constructions in Modern Irish

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 67-88
Author(s):  
Maria Bloch-Trojnar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Verb Classes ◽  
Light Verbs ◽  
Semantic Constraints ◽  
Verbal Noun ◽  
Light Verb Constructions ◽  
Light Verb ◽  
Verb Constructions ◽  
Systematic Behavior ◽  
Semantic Verb Classes

The paper focuses on the semantics of Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) in Modern Irish. Structures made up of a light verb (déan ‘do’, tabhair ‘give’, faigh ‘get’, bain ‘take, extract’) and a verbal noun (VN) complement are investigated. LVCs are argued to have a telicising effect which results from the interaction of the aktionsart of the VN complement and syntax. Particular light verbs show systematic behavior in their ability to combine with VNs derived from certain semantic verb classes (verbs of movement, emission of sound, social interaction etc.) in order to present the situation from different angles by giving prominence to certain participants (Agent, Patient, Experiencer). The choice of a specific light verb may also lead to a subtle semantic modification such as volitionality.

scholarly journals Reconstructing the ditransitive construction for Proto-Germanic: Gothic, Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 555-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan G. Vázquez-González ◽  
Jóhanna Barðdal
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Argument Structure ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Verb Classes ◽  
Ditransitive Verbs ◽  
Germanic Languages ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Semantic Verb Classes ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
East West

Abstract The semantic range of ditransitive verbs in Modern English has been at the center of linguistic attention ever since the pioneering work of Pinker (1989. Learnability and cognition: The acquisition of argument structure. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press). At the same time, historical research on how the semantics of the ditransitive construction has changed over time has seriously lagged behind. In order to address this issue for the Germanic languages, the Indo-European subbranch to which Modern English belongs, we systematically investigate the narrowly defined semantic verb classes occurring in the ditransitive construction in Gothic, Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic. On the basis of data handed down from Proto-Germanic and documented in the oldest layers of the three Germanic subbranches, East, West and North Germanic, respectively, we show that the constructional range of the ditransitive construction was considerably broader in the earlier historical stages than now; several subclasses of verbs that could instantiate the ditransitive in early Germanic are infelicitous in the ditransitive construction in, for instance, Modern English. Taking the oldest surviving evidence from Germanic as point of departure, we reconstruct the ditransitive construction for an earlier proto-stage, using the formalism of Construction Grammar and incorporating narrowly defined semantic verb classes and higher level conceptual domains. We thus reconstruct the internal structure of the ditransitive construction in Proto-Germanic, including different levels of schematicity.

Deverbal zero-nominalization and verb classes: Insights from a database

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-142
Author(s):  
Gianina Iordăchioaia ◽  
Susanne Schweitzer ◽  
Yaryna Svyryda ◽  
María Camila Buitrago Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Semantics ◽  
Result State ◽  
Verb Classes ◽  
Semantic Verb Classes ◽  
Event Result ◽  
Made In

Abstract We investigate deverbal zero-derived nominals in English (e.g., to walk > a walk) from the perspective of the lexical semantics of their base verbs and the interpretations they may receive (e.g., event, result state, product, agent). By acknowledging that, in the absence of an overt affix, the meaning of zero-nominals is highly dependent on that of the base, the ultimate goal of this study is to identify possible meaning regularities that these nominals may display in relation to the different semantic verb classes. We report on a newly created database of 1,000 zero-derived nominals, which have been collected for various semantic verb classes. We test previous generalizations made in the literature in comparison with suffix-based nominals and in relation to the ontological type of the base verb. While these generalizations may intuitively hold, we find intriguing challenges that bring zero-derived nominals closer to suffix-based nominals than previously claimed.

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