When Old English appeared in a written form for the first time, it had already lost inflections like optative, hortative, perfective, passive, etc. Making up these morphological forms, started, again before was and preserved, using periphrastic expressions with modal auxiliaries, habban, beon/wesan, utan, ongan, Without having middle voice, used ‘impersonal’ ‘reflexive’ constructions (the singl...

The present study deals with modal verb meanings and variation concerning these verbs in a corpus of texts the field tourism. For this, we will use compilation article introductions conclusions written English published specialized leading journals on Modal are important to evince authors’ stance propositional content (Palmer, 2001; Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan, 1999). Our main are...

To what extent do Modern Greek, Polish, Swedish and American English similarly lexicalize action concepts, and how similar are the semantic associations between verbs denoting natural actions? Previous results indicate cross-linguistic stability between American English, Swedish, and Polish in verbs denoting basic human body movement, mouth movements, and sound production. The research reported...

The present study examined the composition of the early productive vocabulary of eight Korean- and eight English-learning children and the morpho-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of their caregivers' input in order to determine parallels between caregiver input and early lexical development. Vocabulary acquisition was followed using maternal diary and checklists for the Korean...

This article proposes a new approach to verb classification based on Semantic Types selected in corpus-based verb patterns. This work !"#$%& '(& )#(*%+%& ,-.'"/& '0& 1'"2%& #(!& 3xploitations (Hanks 2013) and applies Corpus Pattern Analysis to a subset of verbs from Lev4(+%&56'4%'(+&78#%%9&4(78:!4(;&<."=%&%:7-&#%& hang and stab. These patterns are taken from the Pattern Dictionary of English Ve...

We describe an approach to large-scale construction of a semantic lexicon for Chinese verbs. We leverage off of three existing resources— a classification of English verbs called EVCA (English Verbs Classes and Alternations) (Levin, 1993), a Chinese conceptual database called HowNet (Zhendong, 1988c; Zhendong, 1988b; Zhendong, 1988a) (http://www.how-net.com), and a large machine-readable dictio...

This paper introduces a novel unsupervised approach to semantic role induction that uses a generative Bayesian model. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first model that jointly clusters syntactic verbs arguments into semantic roles, and also creates verbs classes according to the syntactic frames accepted by the verbs. The model is evaluated on French and English, outperforming, in both c...

The traditional view holds that English main verbs do not move to any of the inflectional heads AgrS, Tns or AgrO. Recently, it has been claimed that while English main verbs cannot move to the highest inflectional head (i.e. AgrS), they may move to an intermediate inflectional head such as AgrO or Tns (cf. section 2). In earlier work, I have argued that all verb movement to inflectional heads ...

We studied a special case of the translation of English verbs in verb-object pairs. Researchers have studied the effects of the linguistic information of the verbs being translated, and many have reported how considering the objects of the verbs will facilitate the quality of translation. In this study, we took an extreme approach assuming the availability of the Chinese translation of the Engl...