French missing object constructions

Missing-object Constructions: Lexical and Constructional Variation

Cross-linguistically, missing object constructions are sometimes analyzed as involving long-distance dependencies, similar to the dependencies found in whquestion or relative clause constructions. Other missing object constructions have been analyzed as involving complex predicate formation. We propose that both classes of missing object constructions are found in English, exemplified by the ca...

Double Object Constructions

Breaking Verbs in French: Two Intransitive Constructions

In Cognitive Linguistics, meaning resides in conceptual-ization and grammar is seen as being meaningful. Cog-nitive semantics provides an array of well-motivated de-scriptive constructs allowing a revealing description ofsemantic and grammatical structure. The linguist ev-idence sheds light on human conceptual abilities thatneed to be accommodated in models of cognitive ...

Verb Semantics and Double Object Constructions A constraint-based approach to Double Object Constructions in German

This paper treats verbs of diverse syntactic and semantic origins that enter into preposition-less double object constructions in German. It develops a fine-grained semantics within a lexicalist approach to grammar. Three semantic components are recognized: situation schemata which represent situational knowledge in the form of a matrix of abstract participant constellations; the attribute desi...

Building a computational lexicon of verbal syntactic constructions in French

We describe a computational lexicon which encodes verbal syntactic constructions in French. The aim of the project is to encode into a standard formalism the valency lexicon for French initiated in the eighties by M. Salkoff and A. Valli and continued since then. The whole computational lexicon will include about six thousand verbal entries with a list of the arguments of each verb, the restric...