Levin B, Hovav M R
Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-4090.
Cognition. 1991 Dec;41(1-3):123-51. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(91)90034-2.
This paper presents a case study in lexical semantic analysis aimed at uncovering syntactically relevant components of verb meaning. Our strategy is to investigate the nature of the lexical knowledge that a speaker of English possesses with respect to certain apparently semantically related verbs: a set of verbs that might as a first approximation be classed as verbs of removal. However, a closer examination of these apparently semantically related verbs reveals that their syntactic properties diverge. An exploration of the patterns of behavior of the verbs suggests that the initial class includes three linguistically significant subclasses. The components of meaning that are relevant to characterizing each subclass are identified by isolating those components of meaning that the members of each subclass share. The conclusion considers the implications of the meaning components identified in this study for a lexical semantic representation.
本文呈现了一个词汇语义分析的案例研究，旨在揭示动词意义中与句法相关的成分。我们的策略是研究英语使用者关于某些表面上语义相关动词所拥有的词汇知识的本质：一组乍一看可归为去除类动词的动词。然而，对这些表面上语义相关动词的仔细考察表明，它们的句法属性存在差异。对这些动词行为模式的探究表明，最初的类别包含三个具有语言学意义的子类。通过分离每个子类成员共有的意义成分，确定了与刻画每个子类相关的意义成分。结论部分考虑了本研究中确定的意义成分对词汇语义表征的影响。
