Mandarin emotion verbs: a frame-based analysis

This paper aims to classify Mandarin verbs of emotion by adopting a frame-based (Fillmore & Atkins 1992) and corpus-based approach, and propose that there should be a more distinct schema than the structure of frames in FrameNet (http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ ~FrameNet/). We start with exploring equivalents of the English verbs of the emotion domain in FrameNet, the database provides frame-based lexical information. However, a purely frame-based approach may be inadequate for Mandarin verbs, hence we create a new classification of Mandarin emotional verbs differing from FrameNet and previous studies.