An essential part of the human capacity for language is the ability to link conceptual or semantic representations with syntactic representations. On the basis of data from spontaneous production, suggested that young children acquire such links on a verb-by-verb basis, with little in the way of a general understanding of linguistic argument structure. Here, we suggest that a receptive understa...

The work described in this paper was originally motivated by the construction of a lexical semantic knowledge base for analysis of Ideational Metafunction of language in Systemic Functional Grammar and the Generalized Upper Model ontology. The work involves mapping FrameNet Frames with Ideational Meanings and instantiating WordNet Verb as the meaning evoking linguistic elements. As the work evo...

Language typology studies have shown that reflexive verb structures are widely represented in diverse languages. In this paper reflexive verb constructs in Bulgarian, French and Hungarian are compared and described on a paradigmatic level. A classification is provided where key Bulgarian reflexive verb constructs, distributed in semantic classes, are used as a seed data set for defining corresp...

The aim of this work is to evaluate possibilities of linking FrameNet frames with Czech verb valency frames from VerbaLex on the class of Indicate verbs. This class is taken from VerbaLex. The motivation cames from the intention to build a FrameNet-like database of semantic frames in Czech.

Auxiliary selection is paradoxical: categorical for some verb classes, indeterminate for others; inconsistent across languages; and misaligned with other diagnostics. After critiquing one solution to the paradox, the Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy (Sorace 2000), we propose an alternative: Parameterized Linking, which approaches the semantic underpinnings of the unaccusative/unergative distinctio...

This paper argues for a constructional view of the resultative constructions, specifically the resultative-verb compounds (henceforth RVCs). We claim that the effect of the construction must be taken into account in the realization of arguments, and the realization must be moderated by the linking rules. This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 provides a brief definition of resultatives i...

Traditional accounts of verb subcategorization, from the classic work of Fillmore on, require either a considerable number of syntactic rules to account for diverse sentence constructions, including crosslanguage variation, or else complex linking rules mapping the thematic roles of semantic event templates with possible syntactic forms. In this paper we exhibit a third approach: we implement, ...

This paper compares two analyses of interfixal-paradigmatic formations in Polish, such as listonosz ‘mail carrier’ and korkociąg ‘corkscrew’. They are often interpreted exocentric compounds consisting a noun stem verb connected by linking vowel, i.e. [N+LV+V]N (Kurzowa; Booij, “Morphology”). The proposal defended here is the treatment lexemes [N+LV+[V]N]N compounds, which right-hand stems assum...