Chapter 5
Comparing Theft verbs to Change verbs
Article outline
- 5.1Introduction
- 5.1.1Overview
- 5.1.2Theft verbs in Levin
(1993) and FrameNet
- 5.1.3Verb descriptivity of Change and Theft verbs
- 5.1.4Outline of chapter
- 5.2Comparing the meanings of English Theft and Change Verbs
- 5.2.1The meanings of English Theft verbs
- 5.2.2Comparison of English Theft and Change meanings
- 5.2.3Verb descriptivity, frequency, and concreteness
- 5.3Comparing English Theft and Change valency constructions and their
features
- 5.3.1Valency constructions of English Theft verbs
- 5.3.2Comparing English Theft and Change VCs and issues in delimiting
VCs
- 5.3.3Frame-sensitive syntactic features
- 5.4Variation among Theft verbs and the need for multi-grained verb
entries
- 5.5Conclusion
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Notes