Introduction
A multifaceted approach to verb classes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3988934 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernard De Clerck (0000-0001-7071-8040, Ghent University, corresponding author), Timothy Colleman (0000-0002-3723-3807, Ghent University), Dominique Willems (0000-0003-2420-932X, Ghent University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2013-0030 |
| OpenAlex | W2045767761 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
In a very broad sense, verb classes can be defined as sets of verbs that share particular linguistic properties."Transitive" verbs, for instance, could be said to constitute a verb class on the basis of their shared grammatical property of being able to occur in transitive constructions.As such, this overarching property would encompass a very large set of verbal lexemes, which share the same general syntactic feature but may well form a quite heterogeneous set with respect to other, more fine-grained grammatical properties.For most linguists, however, the distinguishing properties of verb classes cannot be reduced to a single grammatical feature (e.g., transitivity), neither are these properties restricted to grammatical features.More often than not, existing classifications are based on a variety of semantic and syntactic criteria, starting out from the basic assumption that the semantics of a given verb will to a certain extent determine its grammatical behavior.Such an approach yields more finegrained classifications into clusters of verbs sharing particular lexico-grammatical properties.School examples would constitute the semantically-related "break verbs" in English (break, crack, shatter, splinter, split, etc.) which all involve a change of state in an entity and which share certain argument realization options, which are different from, e.g., the "hit verbs" (hit, kick, punch, slap, . ..) that describe surface contact with an object via forceful impact (cf
Linguistics · Verb · linguistics and terminology studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices
A Theory of Aspectuality
Word Meaning and Montague Grammar
The extended argument dependency model
A unified analysis of the English bare plural
Predicate composition and argument extension as general options - a study in the interface of semantic and conceptual structure
Surface generalizations
Automatic Verb Classification Based on Statistical Distributions of Argument Structure
Large-Scale Induction and Evaluation of Lexical Resources from the Penn-II and Penn-III Treebanks
Syntaxe, lexique et semantique
Learnability and Cognition
The Proposition Bank
WordNet
Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection
Semantic Parameters of Split Intransitivity
On the Failure of Generative Grammar
Syntax
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |