Event Structure of Transitive Verb: A MARVS Perspective

Module-Attribute Representation of Verbal Semantics (MARVS) is a theory of the representation of verbal semantics that is based on Mandarin Chinese data (Huang et al. 2000). In the MARVS theory, there are two different types of modules: Event Structure Modules and Role Modules. There are also two sets of attributes: Event-Internal Attributes and Role-Internal Attributes, which are linked to the Event Structure Module and the Role Module, respectively. In this study, we focus on four transitive verbs as chi “eat”, wan2 “play”, huan4 “change” and shao1 “burn” and the explore their event structures by the MARVS theory. Keyword: MARVS, event structure, event structure modules, intransitive verb 1. 前言 動詞詞義的模組屬性表徵 (The Module-Attribute Representation of Verbal Semantics (MARVS)) 理論是一種基於中文語料的動詞詞義表徵的理論。在 MARVS 理論中,有兩個不同型態的模組:事件結構模組和論元角色模組,他們 又與兩種不同的屬性連結,其一是事件內部屬性和論元角色內部屬性。黃等人 (2000)發現事件模組的組合成分和證實性的詞彙語義屬性,這是可以概括整個自 然語義類的。 ___________________________________________________________________________ Proceedings of 12th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop