The evolution of verb classes and verb agreement in sign languages

Verb classes within and across languages

Any attempt to characterize valency patterns within and across languages confronts the phenomenon of verb or valency classes: sets of semantically-related verbs sharing a range of linguistic properties, such as the possible realizations of their arguments and the particular interpretation associated with each possible argument realization. The Leipzig Valency Classes Project provides an excelle...

The induction of verb frames and verb classes from corpora

Creating lexical information resources manually is an expensive effort: It takes a long time to define detailed lexical knowledge, then the information needs to be updated regularly because of neologisms, sublanguages and language change, and the lexicon will rarely if ever be complete. For these reasons and also given the 10 increasing availability of computing power and corpus resources, one ...

Verb Classes and Alternations

In this report, we investigate the relationship between the semantic and syntactic properties of verbs. Our work is based on the English Verb Classes and Alternations of (Levin, 1993). We explore how these classes are manifested in other languages, in particular, in Bangla, German, and Korean. Our report includes a survey and classiication of several hundred verbs from these languages into the ...

‏‎the description of verb phrase of dezfuli dialect‎‏

شهرستان دزفول در بخش شمالغربی خوزستان با مساحت 4700 کیلومتر مربع و جمعیت 380416 (1375 ) واقع شده است . دزفولیها به گویش دزفولی تکلم می کنند ، گویشی که جز دسته جنوبی زبانهای ایرانی است . در این پایان نامه نویسنده قصد دارد گروه فعلی گویش دزفولی را توصیف کند. همچنین به بحث در باره ریشه فعلی و ستاک های مختلف ، ساخت سببی ، فعل های منظم و نامنظم ، ویژگیهای فعل مانند زمان ، وجه و نمود می پردازد در فصل...

The emergence of creole subject-verb agreement