Lexical Information and Beyond : Constructional Inferences in Semantic Representation

Lexical Information and Beyond: Meaning Coercion and Constructional Inference of the Mandarin Verb Gan

This paper argues for the inclusion of constructional inferences in semantic representation of verbs. By examining the transitive pattern of the Mandarin verb GA N (趕) ‘rush’, it is found that verbal semantics can only be adequately represented if constructionally coerced information is taken into consideration. The construction [GA N + NP] renders specific interpretations that cannot be direct...

The Effect of Semantic Transfer on Iranian EFL Learners’ Lexical Representation and Processing

A Joint Semantic Vector Representation Model for Text Clustering and Classification

Text clustering and classification are two main tasks of text mining. Feature selection plays the key role in the quality of the clustering and classification results. Although word-based features such as term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) vectors have been widely used in different applications, their shortcoming in capturing semantic concepts of text motivated researches to use...

Word Type Effects on L2 Word Retrieval and Learning: Homonym versus Synonym Vocabulary Instruction

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to assess the retention of two word types (synonyms and homonyms) in the short term memory, and (b) to investigate the effect of these word types on word learning by asking learners to learn their Persian meanings. A total of 73 Iranian language learners studying English translation participated in the study. For the first purpose, 36 freshmen from an ...

Verbs and Constructions: Where Next?

Constructional and projectionist approaches are often contrasted, yet both incorporate the same important assumption about the nature of the meaning of sentences with verbs and their arguments, although they differ in how much meaning is allocated to the syntax and how much to the lexicon. FOCUS OF THE TALK: a facet of meaning that both approaches see as lexical, a notion of core meaning or roo...