In this article, we explore the interaction of the verb againwith double object constructionsand the correspondingNP ` PP constructions.The restitutive reading that again gives rise to in combination with these predicates supports an analysis of double object constructions according to which they contain a small clause with a head predicate HAVE, and an analysis of the correspondingNP ` PP cons...

Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Pennsy!vania 200 South 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA { ki pper,htd,schuler,mpalmer}@linc.cis.upenn.edu We present a class-based approach to building a verb lexicon that makes explicit the close relation between syntax and semanrics for Levin classes. We have used a Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar to capture the syntax as...

Light verb constructions (LVCs) are verb and noun combinations in which the verb has lost its meaning to some degree and the noun is used in one of its original senses. They often share their syntactic pattern with other constructions (e.g. verbobject pairs) thus LVC detection can be viewed as classifying certain syntactic patterns as light verb constructions or not. In this paper, we explore a...

The semantic incorporation of nouns into predicates, like give a hug, is not morphologically marked in English, and how syntactic strategies light verb constructions influence the discourse-prominence structure an utterance has yet been studied systematically. One hypothesis that since semantically incorporated are morphosyntactically they can function any other noun as prominent accessible ref...

We report a study that explored the mechanisms used in hypothesizing meanings for novel motion predicates (verbs and prepositions) cross-linguistically. Motion stimuli were presented to English- and Greek-speaking adults and preschoolers accompanied by (a) a novel intransitive verb, (b) a novel transitive verb, (c) a novel transitive preposition, or (d) no novel predicate. Our study provides ev...

This paper deals with the complex verb formation of passive and potential predicates and syntactic structures projected by these verbs. Though both predicates are formed with the suffix -rare which has been assumed to originate from the same stem, they show significantly different syntactic behaviors. We propose two kinds of concatenation of base verbs and auxiliaries; passive verbs are lexical...

In this paper we propose a framework of verb semantic description in order to organize different granularity of similarity between verbs. Since verb meanings highly depend on their arguments we propose a verb thesaurus on the basis of possible shared meanings with predicate-argument structure. Motivations of this work are to (1) construct a practical lexicon for dealing with alternations, parap...

We are studying how to extract hierarchical relation on verbs from definition sentences in a Japanese dictionary. The hierarchical relation on verbs has been dealt with as a binary relation on verbs, but it should be dealt with as logical relation on predicates. We will define the logical form of the hierarchical relation on verbs and then discuss which part of the syntactic structure of the de...

Several recent works on modals and tense argue that epistemic modals and similar types of predicates are deprived of temporal properties. This article takes a different stand. Although epistemic modals typically express what may be dubbed “unchanging truths”, there exist examples to demonstrate that these types of predicates are still able to express a shift in temporal reference. This being th...