The subject of like has the semantic role of Experiencer, while the object is the Stimulus. Like and similar verbs belong to the class of Experiencer-Stimulus verbs (ES). In continuation experiments, where participants are asked to write continuations of sentences/clauses after certain verbs followed by a connective and (often) an ambiguous pronoun, as in (1), participants show a strong and rob...

Phrasal verbs have some structural and semantic characteristics in common with morphologically complex words, even though they originate from phrasal constructions. Focusing on the role played by lexicalization and grammaticalization processes in the gradual shift from syntactic to morphological structures, this paper deals with semantic and morphotactic characteristics of Italian phrasal verbs...

Attitude verbs fall in different categories depending on the kind of complements which they can embed. In English, a verb like know takes both declarative and interrogative complements. By contrast, believe takes only declarative complements and wonder takes only interrogative complements. The present paper examines the hypothesis, originally put forward by Hintikka 1975, that the only verbs th...

We introduce a project aimed at enhancing a valency lexicon of Czech verbs with coherent semantic classes. For this purpose, we make use of FrameNet, a semantically oriented lexical resource. At the present stage, semantic frames from FrameNet have been mapped to two groups of verbs with divergent semantic and morphosyntactic properties, verbs of communication and verbs of exchange. The feasibi...

Two elements in an oriented matroid are inseparable if they have either the same sign in every signed circuit containing them both or opposite signs in every signed circuit containing them both. Two elements of a matroid are adjacent if there is no M(K4)-minor using them both, and in which they correspond to a matching of K4. We prove that two elements e, { of an oriented matroid are inseparabl...