This article proposes a new approach to verb classification based on Semantic Types selected in corpus-based verb patterns. This work !"#$%& '(& )#(*%+%& ,-.'"/& '0& 1'"2%& #(!& 3xploitations (Hanks 2013) and applies Corpus Pattern Analysis to a subset of verbs from Lev4(+%&56'4%'(+&78#%%9&4(78:!4(;&<."=%&%:7-&#%& hang and stab. These patterns are taken from the Pattern Dictionary of English Ve...

We describe an approach to large-scale construction of a semantic lexicon for Chinese verbs. We leverage off of three existing resources— a classification of English verbs called EVCA (English Verbs Classes and Alternations) (Levin, 1993), a Chinese conceptual database called HowNet (Zhendong, 1988c; Zhendong, 1988b; Zhendong, 1988a) (http://www.how-net.com), and a large machine-readable dictio...

In this paper I examine the types of events associated with ditransitive verbs that describe caused possession by looking at their lexical aspectual properties, a methodology that has proven fruitful for the exploration of (in)transitive verbs. I show that as a whole these ditransitives share a number of aspectual properties in common with (in)transitive verbs of change of state and motion, sug...

We aim at a procedure of automatic generation of valency frames for verbs not covered in VALLEX, a lexicon of Czech verbs. We exploit the classification of verbs into syntactico-semantic classes. This article describes our first step to automatically identify verbs of communication and to assign the prototypical frame to them. The method of identification is evaluated against two versions of VA...

This study aimed to investigate the realizations of verbs’ syntactic and semantic features inmoves of applied linguistics research article introductions published in international andIranian local journals. To this end, a data of 30 research article introductions (15 published inIranian local journals and 15 in high impact international journals) was selected. The researcharticle introductions ...

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-base...

The use of phrasal verbs is problematic for Iranian EFL learners. Accordingly, the present studyinvestigated the performance of Iranian intermediate and advanced EFL learners in separable andinseparable verbs. The total population of the study was one hundred female Iranian EFLlearners who studied English as foreign language in Kaj language institute in Qazvin, Iran. Theparticipants were all fe...

In contrast to classical lexical semantic relations between verbs, such as antonymy, synonymy or hypernymy, presupposition is a lexically triggered semantic relation that is not well covered in existing lexical resources. It is also understudied in the field of corpus-based methods of learning semantic relations. Yet, presupposition is very important for semantic and discourse analysis tasks, g...

Vocabulary is one of the essential components of language and learning phrasal verbs as part of vocabulary is quite challenging for foreign language learners. The present study aimed at investigating the effects of visual and auditory input enhancement on learning non-congruent phrasal verbs. The participants of the study were 90 intermediate English language learners who were divided into two ...