Argument structure: English verbs of suiting

External Argument and English Psychological Verbs

The purpose of this paper is to show that the so-called Experiencer-Object (EO) psychological verbs in English have external argument contra Belletti and Rizzi 1988, Grimshaw 1990 and that the structure proposed by Belletti and Rizzi 1988 is not correct. Bouchard 1995, Iwata 1995, and Chung 1998 have already pointed out that the psychological verbs have external argument. This study provides ne...

Verbs Aspect and Argument Structure

EFL learners' learning of English verb argument structure

Translating English and Mandarin Verbs with Argument Structure (Mis)matches using LCS Representation

This paper applies and evaluates a semi-automatically acquired Mandarin Chinese lexicon (Olsen et al., 1998) with respect to translation of English and Chinese verbs in a UNESCO text (Otero, 1997). I demonstrate how Lexical Conceptual Structure templates allow the same semantic structure to apply both to verbs with thematic roles incorporated in the verb itself, and those requiring external the...

Translating English and Mandarin Verbs with Argument Structure ( Mis ) matches using LCS

This paper applies and evaluates a semi-automatically acquired Mandarin Chinese verb lexicon (Olsen et al., 1998) with respect to translation of English and Chinese verbs in a UNESCO text (Otero, 1997). I demonstrate how Lexical Conceptual Structure templates allow the same semantic structure to apply both to verbs that connate thematic roles in with the verbal meaning, and those with thematic ...