Identifying Syntactically Relevant Units of Meaning
Identifying Syntactically Relevant Units of Meaning
Identifying Syntactically Relevant Units of Meaning
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What is the relationship between the<br />
syntactic behavior <strong>of</strong> a verb and its<br />
meaning?<br />
• Syntactic alternations <strong>of</strong>fer limited insights<br />
• Refine Frame Semantics with the notion <strong>of</strong> “verb<br />
descriptivity” (Snell-Hornby 1983)<br />
• More fine-grained analysis <strong>of</strong> verb meaning<br />
• Analysis <strong>of</strong> participants and circumstances<br />
• Additional semantic elements implicitly associated<br />
with a verb’s meaning<br />
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