A polysemy account of alternating verbs of creation in Brazilian Portuguese

Amaral, Luana

doi:10.1515/shll-2016-0001

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“…According to the hypothesis that event structure determines argument realization, as the verb changes its meaning, it can also change its syntactic properties, as long as the change in meaning affects semantically relevant properties of the verb (AMARAL, 2016). Thus, lexical-semantic theories of verb classification treat verbal polysemy as the property of verbs which are able to belong to different classes (LEVIN; RAPPAPORT HOVAV, 2013;AMARAL, 2016). The Croatian verb potisnuti, for instance, has four entries in CROVALLEX, each one associated with a different meaning and a different class: 3 (14) 1 potisnuti (pòtisnuti) 'press down' class: put_result 2 potisnuti (pòtisnuti) 'force something to stay inside' class: conceal 3 potisnuti (pòtisnuti) 'force to retreat (in battle)' class: force 4 potisnuti (pòtisnuti) 'force when to move, remove; push away' class: battle A final important theoretical assumption for verb classification is the postulation of different levels of classification, more specifically classes and subclasses.…”

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Online resources for the syntactic-semantic classification of verbs

Amaral

2022

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Verb classes are defined in lexical-semantics literature as syntactically coherent groups of verbs that also share meaning components. Thus, the investigation of verb classes leads to important insights into the syntax-semantics interface. In this perspective, starting from Levin’s (1993) foundational work for English, many authors have developed analyses for the syntactic-semantic classification of verbs in different languages. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of such studies, focusing on those that constitute online open access resources for the syntactic-semantic classification of verbs: VerbNet for English, BVI for Basque, AnCoraVerb for Spanish and Catalan, VerboWeb for Brazilian Portuguese, CROVALLEX for Croatian, and VALLEX for Czech. Thus, this paper reviews the general theoretical assumptions on verb classification shared by all the works presented, and shows the specific characteristics of each one, considering the body of data, the specific theoretical perspective, analyses and methodology, and the search engines they provide. Finally, it offers a comparative analysis of two specific verb classes (namely, image creation verbs and verbs of creation and transformation), drawing on data from the studies mentioned above. Although these resources assume a specific lexical-semantic approach for verb classification, they provide valuable data and analyses that can be useful for research in different theoretical perspectives.

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Section: Shared Theoretical Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%