Features of Reporting Verbs in Modern English

Automatic Classification of English Verbs Using Rich Syntactic Features

Previous research has shown that syntactic features are the most informative features in automatic verb classification. We experiment with a new, rich feature set, extracted from a large automatically acquired subcategorisation lexicon for English, which incorporates information about arguments as well as adjuncts. We evaluate this feature set using a set of supervised classifiers, most of whic...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

English Nouns English Coarse English Verbs English Adjectives

Lexical properties of English verbs

The central claim of this thesis is that the combinatorial properties of words are determined by their lexical structures. I argue that the lexicalist position follows from the Word Grammar (WG) analytical framework. This framework, developed by Hudson (1984, 1990, 1994, 2003), is the one that I adopt in the linguistic descriptions in the thesis, and the further development of the framework is ...

Reviews Claudia Claridge. Multi-word verbs in Early Modern English: A corpus-based

This book is a long-needed study of certain verbal collocations in English which – on the basis of semantic and syntactic similarities – Claudia Claridge groups together as 'multi-word verbs', including: phrasal verbs (burn N down [transitive], fly away [intransitive]), prepositional verbs (agree to N), phrasal prepositional verbs (look down on N [transitive], put N down to N [ditransitive]), v...