An important aspect of training students a non-philological specialty is the formation foreign language communicative competence. Successful development latter impossible without all its basic components, one which grammatical competency as knowledge elements and ability to use them in communication, on hand, connections patterns established between phenomena concepts they express, other hand.T...

This paper reports a computational analysis of the semantic structure of the first 103 verbs typically learned by young speakers of English, relative to their relation to body parts. The results suggest that early verbs are strongly related to body parts, and tend to be organized to just four main body regions: mouth, eyes, legs, hands. The results also suggest that similarities among verbs in ...

This paper focuses on the readings of quite as a degree modifier of verbs in written English on the basis of the British National Corpus (BNC). The study explores the semantic constraints that govern the relationship between quite and the verbs it combines with in terms of their conceptualization, which reflects the presence or absence of boundaries, i.e. boundedness/ unboundedness. Two types o...

Russian language acquisition requires deep and intensive studying of the concept of verbs of motion. There is a strong opinion that verbs of motion are one of the hardest concepts in the Russian language. However, it is an important issue, as motion verbs are among the most used in any language and nowadays there are hundreds of expressions with these verbs which can be heard quite frequently i...

BACKGROUND The spontaneous and narrative language of Kiswahili agrammatic aphasic and non-brain-damaged speakers was analysed. The bilingual participants were also tested in English to enable comparisons of verb production in the two languages. The significance of this study was to characterise bilingual Kiswahili-English spontaneous agrammatic output. This was done by describing Kiswahili-Engl...

We report two experiments which address the question of whether there is support for single or dual mechanisms in the processing of Polish regular and irregular nouns and verbs. The data from an immediate cross-modal priming experiment (verbs and nouns) revealed that there was significant priming, irrespective of regularity, for both verbs and nouns. The results for verbs were replicated in a s...

This paper aims to classify Mandarin verbs of emotion by adopting a frame-based (Fillmore & Atkins 1992) and corpus-based approach, and propose that there should be a more distinct schema than the structure of frames in FrameNet (http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ ~FrameNet/). We start with exploring equivalents of the English verbs of the emotion domain in FrameNet, the database provides frame-base...

In this paper, I try to show the advantages of analyzing events in terms of subevent structure, by taking into consideration the case of a specific class of verbs: transitive and intransitive verbs which obligatorily require the presence of a predicative complement (e.g., English seem, consider). The proposed analysis is exemplified with data from Italian. Two verbs are described in detail: rim...

We describe a system for automatic annotation of English text in the FrameNet standard. In addition to the conventional annotation of frame elements and their semantic roles, we annotate additional semantic information such as support verbs and prepositions, aspectual markers, copular verbs, null arguments, and slot fillers. As far as we are aware, this is the first system that finds this infor...

In recent work it has been demonstrated by various scholars that the use of modal verbs has changed in past decades (Krug 2000, Leech 2003, Smith 2003, and especially Leech et al. 2009). In earlier work Close and Aarts (2010) and Aarts, Close and Wallis (forthcoming) looked at the changing use of the modal and semimodal auxiliaries in spoken English. While the results of these investigations ar...