Verb senses and argument semantics: From linguistic theory to lexicographic practice
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Elisabetta Ježek
Abstract
In this paper, we illustrate the procedure we adopted to encode the semantic phenomena at play between verbs and their arguments in two electronic dictionaries of argument structures for Italian and Croatian verbs. The procedure is based on the theoretical assumption that both verbs and arguments are active in semantic composition and influence each other’s meanings when they combine in sentences. We first focus on cases where arguments contribute to the meaning acquired by verbs in their context of use, and then we turn to cases in which it is the verb that contextually induces a change in the semantics of the arguments. We present a quantitative and qualitative linguistic analysis of the results we obtained by applying our procedure to 1160 Italian verbs and 180 Croatian verbs, showing that the theoretical assumption holds cross-linguistically and is both necessary and valuable in lexicographic practice.
Abstract
In this paper, we illustrate the procedure we adopted to encode the semantic phenomena at play between verbs and their arguments in two electronic dictionaries of argument structures for Italian and Croatian verbs. The procedure is based on the theoretical assumption that both verbs and arguments are active in semantic composition and influence each other’s meanings when they combine in sentences. We first focus on cases where arguments contribute to the meaning acquired by verbs in their context of use, and then we turn to cases in which it is the verb that contextually induces a change in the semantics of the arguments. We present a quantitative and qualitative linguistic analysis of the results we obtained by applying our procedure to 1160 Italian verbs and 180 Croatian verbs, showing that the theoretical assumption holds cross-linguistically and is both necessary and valuable in lexicographic practice.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Patterns of meaning in lexicography and lexicology 1
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Section 1: Lexicographical issues: The phraseological dimension of language in learner’s lexicography and the PhraseBase project
- Introduction to the PhraseBase project 15
- A theory for a usage-based cognitive lexicography 19
- Exploring BERT’s contextualized word embeddings: a suitable method for a lexicography-oriented analysis of argument structures? 91
- Towards a phrase-based active dictionary 111
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Section 2: Theoretical issues
- Verb senses and argument semantics: From linguistic theory to lexicographic practice 119
- Valency vs. Patterns: What do corpora tell us about argument structure? 139
- Layer upon layer, mistake after mistake – a case for learner’s dictionaries? 159
- Patterns of meanings between syntax and lexicon. a lexicological and lexicographic overview of italian partially lexically specified constructions 181
- A carry-coals-to-Newcastle exercise: The nature of phraseological units and their place in a constructicon of english 207
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Section 3: Methodological issues
- Language awareness as a prerequisite for a successful use of lexicographic resources 239
- Regular polysemy in Spanish nouns: corpus analysis and some implications for lexicography 257
- No word is an island: The phraseological nature of lemma in interlingual comparison 277
- Analysing, compiling, and representing argument pattern structures: From form to meaning and back 297
- Index 317
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Patterns of meaning in lexicography and lexicology 1
-
Section 1: Lexicographical issues: The phraseological dimension of language in learner’s lexicography and the PhraseBase project
- Introduction to the PhraseBase project 15
- A theory for a usage-based cognitive lexicography 19
- Exploring BERT’s contextualized word embeddings: a suitable method for a lexicography-oriented analysis of argument structures? 91
- Towards a phrase-based active dictionary 111
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Section 2: Theoretical issues
- Verb senses and argument semantics: From linguistic theory to lexicographic practice 119
- Valency vs. Patterns: What do corpora tell us about argument structure? 139
- Layer upon layer, mistake after mistake – a case for learner’s dictionaries? 159
- Patterns of meanings between syntax and lexicon. a lexicological and lexicographic overview of italian partially lexically specified constructions 181
- A carry-coals-to-Newcastle exercise: The nature of phraseological units and their place in a constructicon of english 207
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Section 3: Methodological issues
- Language awareness as a prerequisite for a successful use of lexicographic resources 239
- Regular polysemy in Spanish nouns: corpus analysis and some implications for lexicography 257
- No word is an island: The phraseological nature of lemma in interlingual comparison 277
- Analysing, compiling, and representing argument pattern structures: From form to meaning and back 297
- Index 317
