Verb Argument Structure: A Bird's-Eye View

摘要

In any given language, there are many verbs and many structures. Studying all of them is a monumental challenge, so in order to get a handle on the system as a whole, we often focus on specific test cases. While useful, this strategy can distort the overall picture if the special cases are chosen non-randomly (they are), are not investigated exhaustively (they are not), and if different researchers looking at different special cases come to different conclusions (they do). In this talk, I'll describe a cluster of interrelated, ongoing projects that try to make sense of the English verb argument structure system as a whole. The results point to a tight coupling between syntax and semantics (and, more broadly, conceptual representations).

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