Distinguishing semantic components of attitude verbs via the German modifier genau

Evidentiality and German Attitude Verbs

German attitude verbs usually embed that-clause complements. In addition, only certain verbs can also license clauses with matrix verb-second (V2) word order as their complements. These same verbs can also appear in slifting constructions. The main question addressed in this paper is why only some attitude verbs allow these additional constructions. I argue that in slifting, the attitude verb f...

Distinguishing Literal and Non-Literal Usage of German Particle Verbs

This paper provides a binary, token-based classification of German particle verbs (PVs) into literal vs. non-literal usage. A random forest improving standard features (e.g., bagof-words; affective ratings) with PV-specific information and abstraction over common nouns significantly outperforms the majority baseline. In addition, PV-specific classification experiments demonstrate the role of sh...

Semantic Information and the Syntax of Propositional Attitude Verbs.

Propositional attitude verbs, such as think and want, have long held interest for both theoretical linguists and language acquisitionists because their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties display complex interactions that have proven difficult to fully capture from either perspective. This paper explores the granularity with which these verbs' semantic and pragmatic properties are rec...

Latent Semantic Clustering of German Verbs with Treebank Data

Treebank data have been utilized as data sources for a wide range of tasks in computational linguistics, including statistical parsing, anaphora resolution, induction of valence lexica, etc. More recently, researchers have experimented with extracting semantic information from syntactically annotated data. Here, treebank data have been used for the purposes of identifying selectional preference...

Assigning Verbs To Semantic Classes Via WordNet