Identifying Syntactically Relevant Units of Meaning

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More verb class problems • For each syntactic phenomenon there may be a different verb class definition • Verb classes are epiphenomenal • Lexicalist paradox: two contradictory goals for constructing lexical entries: (1) Factoring predictable information out <strong>of</strong> lexical entries (as minimal as possible) (2) Explain a verb’s varied syntactic behavior (as maximal as possible) – argument realization 36
Alternative: A frame-semantic approach to verb classification • Frame Semantics (Fillmore 1982) • Lexical Unit (LU) • Semantic Frame, Frame Elements (FE) • Primacy <strong>of</strong> semantic information •FrameNet (Fillmore et al. 2003; http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu) 37
Page 1 and 2: Identifying Syntactically Relevant
Page 3 and 4: Introduction • Locative alternati
Page 5 and 6: Using syntactic behavior for defini
Page 7 and 8: Content-oriented with-verbs (Pinker
Page 9 and 10: Lexical Rule: Derivation • with-v
Page 11 and 12: Problem 1 • Sole complement diagn
Page 13 and 14: Problem 3 • Which verb sense is t
Page 15 and 16: Summary - Problems with Pinker (198
Page 17 and 18: Simple vs. complex event structures
Page 19 and 20: Locative Alternation (Levin 2003)
Page 21 and 22: Differences between sew and vacuum
Page 23 and 24: Event structures determines alterna
Page 25: Problem 2 with Projectionist Approa
Page 28 and 29: Summary - Problems with Levin (2003
Page 30 and 31: Multiple class membership and limit
Page 32 and 33: Verbs from same class show varied b
Page 34 and 35: World knowledge impacts syntactic d
Page 38 and 39: Structure of Lexical Entry • Fram
Page 40 and 41: Lexical Entry of load in the Fillin
Page 42 and 43: The Placing Frame: Frame descriptio
Page 44 and 45: Lexical Entry of load in the Placin
Page 46: Advantages of frame-semantic classi
Page 51 and 52: Verb descriptivity strut ANu (act n
Page 53 and 54: Two types of verb descriptivity •
Page 55 and 56: Low degree of descriptivity • Mod
Page 57 and 58: Integrating “verb descriptivity
Page 59 and 60: First approximation of descriptivit
Page 61 and 62: Comparison of motion verbs • They
Page 63 and 64: Correlation between degree of descr
Page 65 and 66: Range of argument realization Resul
Page 68: Degree of descriptivity correlates
Page 72 and 73: Next steps • Analyze each semanti
Page 74 and 75: Next steps - constructicon • Exte

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