in recent decades, “figurative language” has gained the interest of a large number of russian linguists as a source of lexical enrichment. persian and russian manifest, are more or less, a different image of a movement. nevertheless, these verbs share a number of linguistic features, although they belong to two diverse languages. due to the high frequency in the function of movement verbs in th...

In this paper we will describe a process for mining syntactical verbal subcategorization, i.e. the information about the kind of phrases or clauses a verb goes with. We will use a large text corpus having almost 10,000,000 tagged words as our resource material. Loglinear modeling is used to analyze and automatically identify the subcategorization dependencies. An unsupervised clustering algorit...

We examined decisions based on verbal probability phrases, such as "small chance," "likely," or "doubtful" (we call these phrases verbal probabilities). Verbal probabilities have communicative functions called directionality and can be categorized into positive (e.g., "likely" or "probable") or negative (e.g., “unlikely,” “doubtful”) phrases in terms of their directionality. Previous studies ha...