Wiping the slate clean: A lexical semantic exploration

Levin, Beth; Hovav, Malka Rappaport

doi:10.1016/0010-0277(91)90034-2

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“…The fourth, Two Postverbal Words CA used only the two post-verbal words because adjacent word statistics are commonly used in computational models (e.g., trigrams, Chang et al, 2008;Redington et al, 1998;Mintz et al, 2002). Because our corpus analysis identified transitives as a possible source of locative verb class information, our final CA (Transitive CA) explored whether there was sufficient information in post-verbal articles and nouns (that is, in transitive but not locative utterances) to correctly classify locative verbs (Levin & Rappaport Hovav, 1991). This analysis therefore used the same input as the Two Post-verbal Words CA, but excluded prepositions as well as any words following these prepositions.…”

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Do as I say, not as I do: A lexical distributional account of English locative verb class acquisition

Twomey

Chang

Ambridge

2014

Cognitive Psychology

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Children overgeneralise verbs to ungrammatical structures early in acquisition, but retreat from these overgeneralisations as they learn semantic verb classes. In a large corpus of English locative utterances (e.g., the woman sprayed water onto the wall/wall with water), we found structural biases which changed over development and which could explain overgeneralisation behaviour. Children and adults had similar verb classes and a correspondence analysis suggested that lexical distributional regularities in the adult input could help to explain the acquisition of these classes. A connectionist model provided an explicit account of how structural biases could be learned over development and how these biases could be reduced by learning verb classes from distributional regularities.

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Section: A Corpus-based Test Of the Distributional Learning Hypothesismentioning

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Do as I say, not as I do: A lexical distributional account of English locative verb class acquisition

Twomey

Chang

Ambridge

2014

Cognitive Psychology

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“…Traditionally (Talmy 1975(Talmy , 1985Jackendoff 1983, Levin andRappaport Hovav 1991), there have been two main ways of dividing verbs: i. manner versus path, as in jog versus cross; and ii. manner versus result, as in wipe versus clean.…”

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Event structure, conceptual spaces and the semantics of verbs

Warglien

Gärdenfors

Westera

2012

Theoretical Linguistics

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Abstract:The aim of this paper is to integrate spatial cognition with lexical semantics. We develop cognitive models of actions and events based on conceptual spaces and vectors on them. The models are then used to present a semantic theory of verbs.We propose a two-vector model of events including a force vector and a result vector. We argue that our framework provides a unified account for a multiplicity of linguistic phenomena related to verbs. Among other things it provides a cognitive explanation for the lexico-semantic constraint regarding manner vs. result and for polysemy caused by intentionality. It also generates a unified definition of aspect.

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“…48 Según Levin y Rappaport (2005: 233), "when verbs with manner roots are found in a complex event structure, the type of result must be one that can be naturally obtained given the type of manner". 49 Siguiendo a Levin y Rappaport (véase, por ejemplo, Levin y Rappaport, 1991;Levin y Rappaport, 2013), barrer y fregar serían verbos de actividad que describen un proceso que puede llevarse a cabo indefinidamente y que no codifican alcanzar ningún resultado. 50 Cito a continuación las definiciones que da el DUE (Moliner, M., Diccionario de uso del español, Madrid, Gredos, 1971) de barrer y de fregar: Barrer: Arrastrar con una escoba o utensilio que haga el mismo efecto basura, desperdicios, etc., para limpiar de ellos el suelo.…”

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Linares¹

2015

ELUA

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This study focuses on two aspects of estar+past participle resultative constructions. On the one hand, the paper analyses the concept of 'resultant state' and its relevance to the analysis of these constructions. On the other hand, this work examines estar+past participle constructions that have an attributive meaning but are not built with a change of state verb and/or include an agentive by-phrase. The study shows that there are at least two senses in which the term "resultant state" is used and that those senses are also related to two types of resultative constructions: one of them has an attributive or qualitative meaning, the other one has a more temporal "phasal" sense, related to the meaning of "perfect aspect". The study also reveals that none of these two types of constructions is restricted to verbs that lexicalize a "resultant state" and cannot be explained by using exclusively grammatical features or aspectual classes; it is also necessary to take contextual and pragmatic factors into account.KEY WORDS: Resultant state, estar+Pparticiple resultative construction, perfect aspect, agentive complements, phasal adverb. ResumenEste trabajo tiene por objeto indagar sobre dos aspectos de las construcciones resultativas formadas por un participio y el verbo estar: por un lado, la vinculación de estas construcciones con el concepto de 'estado resultante'; por otro lado, la existencia de construcciones resultativas de sentido atributivo que incorporan complementos referidos al agente y/o no están formadas por verbos que incluyan en su estructura léxica un estado resultante. El examen muestra que "estado resultante" se usa al menos con dos sentidos que se relacionan asimismo con dos tipos de construcciones resultativas: unas de sentido atributivo o cualitativo, más comúnmente reconocido, otras con un sentido "de fase" más temporal, asociado a la interpretación del "aspecto perfecto". Muestra igualmente que las complementaciones agentivas contribuyen a formar el sentido cualitativo propio de las construcciones atributivas y que ninguna de estas dos clases de construcciones se restringe a verbos que incluyan en su estructura léxica un "estado resultante" ni su formación puede explicarse tomando como base las clases léxico-aspectuales de predicados o rasgos exclusivamente gramaticales sin tomar en consideración aspectos contextuales y pragmáticos.PALABRAS CLAVE: Estado resultante, construcción resultativa, aspecto perfecto, complementaciones agentivas, adverbio de fase. IntroducciónTanto la posibilidad de que un verbo admita una construcción de participio con estar como las peculiaridades semánticas y sintácticas de estas construcciones se han venido explicando, fundamentalmente, tomando como base las propiedades léxico-aspectuales de los verbos.

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Wiping the slate clean: A lexical semantic exploration

Cited by 176 publications

References 9 publications

Do as I say, not as I do: A lexical distributional account of English locative verb class acquisition

Do as I say, not as I do: A lexical distributional account of English locative verb class acquisition

Event structure, conceptual spaces and the semantics of verbs

El disco está besado por Justin, la novela ya está leída: a propósito de las construcciones resultativas con estar

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