Semantic similarity and argument structure constructions

Lundi 26 Mars 2018, 16:00 to 18:00
Invité: 
Jean-Pierre Koenig (Université de Buffalo, invité Labex EFL)
Organisation: 
Anne Abeillé (LLF)
Lieu: 

ODG – Salle 357

Jean-Pierre Koenig (Université de Buffalo)
Semantic similarity and argument structure constructions

It has been claimed that verbs that occur in the same syntactic environments tend to have similar meanings and that one verb tends to characterize that meaning (e.g., give for the ditransitive construction in English). In this lecture, I will look at the relation between semantic similarity and syntactic similarity (in terms of frequency of occurrence in argument structure constructions) using both corpus studies and syntactic priming studies and will present corpus studies that explore whether all argument structure constructions behave the same way (they do not!).

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References

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