This paper applies and evaluates a semi-automatically acquired Mandarin Chinese lexicon (Olsen et al., 1998) with respect to translation of English and Chinese verbs in a UNESCO text (Otero, 1997). I demonstrate how Lexical Conceptual Structure templates allow the same semantic structure to apply both to verbs with thematic roles incorporated in the verb itself, and those requiring external the...

Research on metaphor has generally focused on exploring its context-dependent behavior and function. This current study aims to testify the postulate of English verb's innate trait of Metaphor Making potential. This paper intends to carry out an in-depth case study of a group of English core verbs using WordNet and SUMO ontology. In order to operationalize the assessment of an English verb’s me...

To learn motion verbs, infants must be sensitive to the specific event features lexicalized in their language. One event feature important for the acquisition of English motion verbs is the manner of motion. This article examines when and how infants detect manners of motion across variations in the figure's path. Experiment 1 shows that 13- to 15-month-olds (N = 30) can detect an invariant man...

After the fall of Roman in uence in the British Isles at the beginning of the 5 Century A.D., two West Germanic tribes began pouring into Britain in increasing numbers. Originally recruited as mercenaries against the Picts in modernday Scotland, the Angles and Saxons stayed and eventually overwhelmed the Celts and other inhabitants of modern-day England and Wales who had invited them (Wikipedia...

The purpose of this paper is to show that the so-called Experiencer-Object (EO) psychological verbs in English have external argument contra Belletti and Rizzi 1988, Grimshaw 1990 and that the structure proposed by Belletti and Rizzi 1988 is not correct. Bouchard 1995, Iwata 1995, and Chung 1998 have already pointed out that the psychological verbs have external argument. This study provides ne...

Generally, every language has a lexicon that is grouped into classified verbs. Each verb can be broken down some specific subtypes. Particularly in English, verbs are semantically divided several Verbs such as tell, ask, inform, offer, forgive, and others belonging to the types of speech or acts. This study aims analyze natural semantic metalanguage analysis English act inform. In collecting da...

Phrasal Verbs are an important feature of the English language. Properly identifying them provides the basis for an English parser to decode the related structures. Phrasal verbs have been a challenge to Natural Language Processing (NLP) because they sit at the borderline between lexicon and syntax. Traditional NLP frameworks that separate the lexicon module from the parser make it difficult to...

This paper describes the construction of the Ottawa Repository of Early African American Correspondence (OREAAC), a corpus of over 400 letters written by antebellum African American settlers in Liberia. Identifying the most speech-like letters by the least literate authors, we constituted perhaps the largest linguistically useful corpus of diachronic African American English primary data curren...

Of the 57 basic sentence categories (SC) defined in the HNC theory, action-effect SC is an important one with distinctive features. In the light of the HNC conceptual network, action-effect sentences in the Chinese language arise directly from causative verbs and compelling verbs, and indirectly from general acting verbs, i.e. via the use of the " de(4)" construction. In Chinese-English machine...

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 ...