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20Semantic similarity to high-frequency verbs affects syntactic frame selectionCognitive Linguistics 30 (3): 601-628. 2019.Journal Name: Cognitive Linguistics Issue: Ahead of print
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13Sublexical modality and the structure of lexical semantic representationsLinguistics and Philosophy 24 (1): 71-124. 2001.This paper argues for a largely unnoted distinction between relational and modal components in the lexical semantics of verbs. Wehypothesize that many verbs encode two kinds of semantic information:a relationship among participants in a situation and a subset ofcircumstances or time indices at which this relationship isevaluated. The latter we term sublexical modality.We show that linking regularities between semantic arguments andsyntactic functions provide corroborating evidence in favor of th…Read more
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58What with? The Anatomy of a -Role: ArticlesJournal of Semantics 25 (2): 175-220. 2008.This paper describes a comprehensive survey of English verbs that semantically allow or require an Instrument role. It sheds light on the nature of Instrument roles and instrumentality by examining the distribution in semantic space of those verbs. We show first that verbs that semantically require instruments are typically semantically more complex than predicted by current theories of the structural complexity of verb meanings. We also show that verbs that require or allow instruments constrai…Read more
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33A-definites and the discourse status of implicit argumentsJournal of Semantics 16 (3): 207-236. 1999.
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10Semantic similarity, predictability, and models of sentence processingCognition 122 (3): 267-279. 2012.
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6Arguments for adjunctsCognition 89 (2): 67-103. 2003.It is commonly assumed across the language sciences that some semantic participant information is lexically encoded in the representation of verbs and some is not. In this paper, we propose that semantic obligatoriness and verb class specificity are criteria which influence whether semantic information is lexically encoded. We present a comprehensive survey of the English verbal lexicon, a sentence continuation study, and an on-line sentence processing study which confirm that both factors play …Read more
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University at BuffaloRegular Faculty
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |