Chapter 2
Approaches to verb classification
Article outline
- 2.1Lexical semantics, syntax-semantics interface, and verb classes: An overview
- 2.1.1Lexical semantics
- 2.1.2Goals and challenges of verb classification and syntax-semantics
interface research
- 2.2Role-based approaches to argument realization
- 2.3Event-structural approaches to argument realization and verb
classes
- 2.3.1The relation between event structure, verb meaning, and argument
realization
- 2.3.2Problems with event-structural approaches
- 2.4
Levin’s (1993)
alternation-based classification of English verbs
- 2.4.1Overview
- 2.4.2Change verbs in Levin
(1993)
- 2.4.3Evaluation of Levin
(1993)
- 2.4.4The status of argument structure alternations
- 2.4.5Summary
- 2.5Summary and conclusion
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Notes