Across languages, clauses containing descriptions of similar events are likely to include the same conceptual components, but these may be distributed differently across the constituents of the clause. Compare, for instance, the English description of a directed motion event in (1a) to its most natural French translation (1b). Both these sentences contain linguistic units expressing the concept...

A traditional lexicalization analysis of a word looks backwards in time, describing each change in the word’s form and usage patterns from actuation (creation) to the present day. I suggest that this traditional view of lexicalization can be labelled Anaphoric Lexicalization to reflect its focus upon what has passed. A corresponding forward-looking process can then be envisaged called Cataphori...

Languages vary typologically in their lexicalization of PATH of motion (Talmy 1991). Furthermore, lexicalization patterns are argued to a¤ect syntactic packaging at the level of the clause (e.g., Slobin 1996b) and tend to transfer from a first (L1) to a second language (L2) in second language acquisition (e.g., Cadierno and Ruiz 2006). Crosslinguistic and developmental evidence suggests, then, ...

DBpedia encodes massive amounts of open domain knowledge and is growing by accumulating more triples at the same rate as Wikipedia. However, the applications often require natural language formulations of these triples to present the information as a natural text. The RealTextlex2 framework offers a scalable platform to transform these triples to natural language sentences using lexicalization ...

Talmy‘s (1985) crosslinguistic typology of lexicalization patterns of motion events have been extensively used in second language acquisition (SLA) research as a means to examine how second language (L2) learners map form, meaning, and function. These studies have yielded some conflicting results regarding the learnability of L2 lexicalization patterns  arguably the oversimplification over and...

This paper aims at exploiting Linked Data for generating natural text, often referred to as lexicalization. We propose a framework that can generate patterns which can be used to lexicalize Linked Data triples. Linked Data is structured knowledge organized in the form of triples consisting of a subject, a predicate and an object. We use DBpedia as the Linked Data source which is not only free b...

The packaging of meaning in verbs varies widely across languages since are free to encode different aspects an event. At the same time, tend display recurrent preferences lexicalization, e.g. verb-framing vs. satellite-framing motion. It has been noted, however, that lexicalization patterns motion not carried over domain vision, gaze trajectory (‘visual path’) is coded outside main verb even ve...