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: rimanere, ‘remain’ and rendere, ‘make’. It is shown that subevent structure representation is useful for the description of the different uses and meanings of these verbs. This type of description can also be the basis for an accurate treatment in computational semantic lexica.

STRIK LIEVERS, F. (2011). Verbs and (sub)Event Structure: A Case Study from Italian. In Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (pp.533-540). Tokyo : Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University.

Verbs and (sub)Event Structure: A Case Study from Italian

STRIK LIEVERS, FRANCESCA
2011

Abstract

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: rimanere, ‘remain’ and rendere, ‘make’. It is shown that subevent structure representation is useful for the description of the different uses and meanings of these verbs. This type of description can also be the basis for an accurate treatment in computational semantic lexica.
poster + paper
event structure, Italian, predicative complement, verbs, Generative Lexicon
English
25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 25)
2011
Hong Gao, H; Minghui Dong
Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
978-4-905166-02-3
2011
533
540
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STRIK LIEVERS, F. (2011). Verbs and (sub)Event Structure: A Case Study from Italian. In Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (pp.533-540). Tokyo : Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University.
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