Perception vocabulary in five languages - towards an analysis using frame elements
Abstract
This essay introduces the first linguistic task of the DELIS project’: to undertake a corpus-based examination of the syntactic and semantic properties of perception vocabulary in five languages, English, Danish, Dutch, French and Italian. The theoretical background is Fillmore’s Frame Semantics. The paper reviews some of the variety of facts to be accounted for, particularly in the specialization of sense associated with some collocations, and the pervasive phenomenon of Intensionality. Through this review, we aim to focus our understanding of cross-linguistic variation in this one domain, both by noting specific differences in word-sense correlation, and by exhibiting a general means of representation.- Anthology ID:
- 1993.eamt-1.15
- Volume:
- Third International EAMT Workshop: Machine Translation and the Lexicon
- Month:
- April 26–28
- Year:
- 1993
- Address:
- Heidelberg, Germany
- Venue:
- EAMT
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Note:
- Pages:
- 219–230
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/1993.eamt-1.15
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Nicholas Ostler. 1993. Perception vocabulary in five languages - towards an analysis using frame elements. In Third International EAMT Workshop: Machine Translation and the Lexicon, pages 219–230, Heidelberg, Germany. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- Cite (Informal):
- Perception vocabulary in five languages - towards an analysis using frame elements (Ostler, EAMT 1993)