Verbs Expressing Wish and Their Modality Features 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...

epistemic modality in english and persian academic writing: a cross-linguistic study of genre on the notion of transfer

چکیده حیطه ی نوشتار دانشگاهی اخیرا شاهد تغییرات عمده ای از غیرشخصی بودن (عینی بودن) به شخصی بودن بوده است. شخصی بودن متون دانشگاهی اهمیت استفاده از وجهیت معرفتی را برجسته می سازد چرا که? وجهیت معرفتی? بر اساس یکی از تعاریف ارائه شده از این مقوله? ارتباط تنگاتنگی با شخصی بودن داشته و به عنوان بیان نظر شخصی گوینده در مورد جز گزاره ای گفته در نظر گرفته میشود. بنابراین? با در نظر داشتن نقاط مشترک...

English Nouns English Coarse English Verbs English Adjectives

Verbs of Emotion in French and English

We undertook a detailed investigation of French and English verbs of emotion. Based on a prior classification of French emotion verbs (Mathieu, 2000, 2005), the corresponding English verbs were manually identified. An independent classification for each language yielded 27 shared classes and one class specific to English only. We matched the verbs and the classes crosslinguistically for both se...

Psych verbs in English and Mandarin

Psych verb constructions show peculiar properties. They appear to project the same θ -relations into inverse configurations (John fears sharks/Sharks frighten John). Furthermore, Experiencer Object psych verb constructions admit backward binding in apparent violation of familiar c-command conditions (Pictures of himself anger John). We offer a solution to both puzzles drawing crucially on data ...