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El. knyga: Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German

(Sam Houston State University)
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"While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Valency Grammar. On this approach, verb classes are formulated at varying granularity levels to adequately capture both the shared semantic and syntactic properties unifying verbs of a class and the idiosyncratic properties unique to individual verbs. In-depth analyses based on this approach shed light on the interrelations between verbs, frame-semantics, and constructions, and on the semantic richness and network organization of grammatical constructions. This approach is extended to a comparison of Change and Theft verbs, revealing unexpected lexical and syntactic differences across semantically distinct classes. Finally, a range of contrastive (German-English) analyses demonstrate how verb classes can inform the cross-linguistic comparison of verbs and constructions"--

While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Valency Grammar.
On this approach, verb classes are formulated at varying granularity levels to adequately capture both the shared semantic and syntactic properties unifying verbs of a class and the idiosyncratic properties unique to individual verbs. In-depth analyses based on this approach shed light on the interrelations between verbs, frame-semantics, and constructions, and on the semantic richness and network organization of grammatical constructions.
This approach is extended to a comparison of Change and Theft verbs, revealing unexpected lexical and syntactic differences across semantically distinct classes. Finally, a range of contrastive (German–English) analyses demonstrate how verb classes can inform the cross-linguistic comparison of verbs and constructions.
Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1 Introduction
1(20)
1.1 Introduction
1(3)
1.1.1 Overview and purpose
1(1)
1.1.2 The intuitive basis of verb classes
2(2)
1.2 Verb class research
4(9)
1.2.1 Various approaches to verb classes
4(4)
1.2.2 Insights from cognitive and usage-based linguistics
8(3)
1.2.3 Verb classes across domains and languages
11(2)
1.3 Overview and structure of the monograph
13(8)
1.3.1 Theoretical background
13(2)
1.3.2 A novel approach to verb classes
15(2)
1.3.3 Comparative aspects of verb classes
17(1)
1.3.4 Data, scope, limitations
18(3)
Chapter 2 Approaches to verb classification
21(32)
2.1 Lexical semantics, syntax-semantics interface, and verb classes: An overview
21(5)
2.1.1 Lexical semantics
21(2)
2.1.2 Goals and challenges of verb classification and syntax-semantics interface research
23(3)
2.2 Role-based approaches to argument realization
26(5)
2.3 Event-structural approaches to argument realization and verb classes
31(10)
2.3.1 The relation between event structure, verb meaning, and argument realization
31(6)
2.3.2 Problems with event-structural approaches
37(4)
2.4 Levin's (1993) alternation-based classification of English verbs
41(9)
2.4.1 Overview
41(3)
2.4.2 Change verbs in Levin (1993)
44(2)
2.4.3 Evaluation of Levin (1993)
46(2)
2.4.4 The status of argument structure alternations
48(1)
2.4.5 Summary
49(1)
2.5 Summary and conclusion
50(3)
Chapter 3 Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Valency Grammar
53(60)
3.1 Frame Semantics
53(22)
3.1.1 Background and introduction to Frame Semantics
54(2)
3.1.2 FrameNet classes, Frame Elements, Lexical Units, and the FrameNet hierarchy
56(7)
3.1.3 Comparing Frame Semantics to other approaches to the syntax-semantics interface
63(7)
3.1.4 Problems with Frame Semantics
70(4)
3.1.5 Summary
74(1)
3.2 Construction Grammar
75(26)
3.2.1 Construction Grammar: An introduction
75(3)
3.2.2 Principles of CxG
78(9)
3.2.3 Constructional approaches to argument realization
87(11)
3.2.4 Change verbs in CxG
98(2)
3.2.5 Summary of CxG
100(1)
3.3 Valency Grammar
101(9)
3.3.1 Introduction and the VDE
101(1)
3.3.2 Faulhaber (2011) and the idiosyncratic nature of verb valency
102(2)
3.3.3 Valency constructions and argument structure constructions
104(6)
3.4 Conclusion
110(3)
Chapter 4 English Change verbs
113(74)
4.1 Introduction
113(3)
4.2 Semantics of English Change Verbs
116(8)
4.2.1 Method
116(2)
4.2.2 Meaning components of English Change verbs
118(2)
4.2.3 Summary of English Change verb meanings
120(4)
4.3 Valency of English Change verbs
124(17)
4.3.1 Data, methodology, and terminology
124(4)
4.3.2 English Change VCs: Overview
128(2)
4.3.3 Results of corpus analysis
130(5)
4.3.4 Summary of corpus valency analysis
135(6)
4.4 The English Change frame-constructional verb class
141(25)
4.4.1 Approach
141(3)
4.4.2 The semantics of the English Change FCVC
144(4)
4.4.3 The syntax of the English Change FCVC
148(18)
4.5 Multi-grained verb entries and (syntactic-semantic) subclasses
166(11)
4.5.1 Contents of multi-grained verb entries
166(2)
4.5.2 MGVEs for English Change verbs
168(4)
4.5.3 Implications of the MGVE approach
172(1)
4.5.4 Syntactic-semantic subclasses and refining MGVEs
173(4)
4.6 Testing the FCVC approach and a "Drastic Change" subclass
177(7)
4.6.1 Can FCVCs predict argument realization?
177(1)
4.6.2 Meaning and valency behavior of metamorphose
178(2)
4.6.3 Assessing the accuracy (predictive power) of the Change FCVC
180(2)
4.6.4 A "Drastic Change" subclass?
182(2)
4.7 Conclusion
184(3)
Chapter 5 Comparing Theft verbs to Change verbs
187(38)
5.1 Introduction
187(7)
5.1.1 Overview
187(1)
5.1.2 Theft verbs in Levin (1993) and FrameNet
188(3)
5.1.3 Verb descriptivity of Change and Theft verbs
191(2)
5.1.4 Outline of chapter
193(1)
5.2 Comparing the meanings of English Theft and Change Verbs
194(8)
5.2.1 The meanings of English Theft verbs
194(2)
5.2.2 Comparison of English Theft and Change meanings
196(4)
5.2.3 Verb descriptivity, frequency, and concreteness
200(2)
5.3 Comparing English Theft and Change valency constructions and their features
202(16)
5.3.1 Valency constructions of English Theft verbs
203(4)
5.3.2 Comparing English Theft and Change VCs and issues in delimiting VCs
207(7)
5.3.3 Frame-sensitive syntactic features
214(4)
5.4 Variation among Theft verbs and the need for multi-grained verb entries
218(3)
5.5 Conclusion
221(4)
Chapter 6 A contrastive perspective: German Change and Theft Verbs
225(60)
6.1 Background and outline of the contrastive change verb analysis
225(8)
6.1.1 Previous contrastive research on verb meaning
226(2)
6.1.2 Previous contrastive research on verb valency and constructions
228(3)
6.1.3 Overview of contrastive Change verb analyses
231(2)
6.2 Change verbs in German and English
233(34)
6.2.1 Meanings of German Change verbs
233(4)
6.2.2 Valency constructions of German Change verbs
237(4)
6.2.3 Comparing German and English Change valency constructions
241(10)
6.2.4 Valency behavior of German Change verbs
251(11)
6.2.5 Grammatically relevant meaning components of Change verbs in German and English
262(4)
6.2.6 Conclusion of contrastive Change verb analysis
266(1)
6.3 Theft verbs in German and English: Verb descriptivity in contrastive analysis
267(17)
6.3.1 Introduction and review of contrastive research on Theft verbs
267(4)
6.3.2 Theft verb meanings in German and English
271(5)
6.3.3 Comparing the contrastive analyses of Theft and Change valency constructions
276(8)
6.4 Summary and conclusion
284(1)
Chapter 7 Conclusion
285(14)
7.1 Summary
285(4)
7.2 Conclusions and implications
289(6)
7.3 Limitations and outlook
295(4)
Bibliography 299(14)
Author Index 313(4)
Verb Class Index 317(2)
Subject Index 319