Abstract
This paper proposes a new method for Italian verb classification -and a preliminary example of resulting classes- inspired by Levin (1993) and VerbNet (Kipper-Schuler, 2005), yet partially independent from these resources; we achieved such a result by integrating Levin and VerbNet’s models of classification with other theoretic frameworks and resources. The classification is rooted in the constructionist framework (Goldberg, 1995; 2006) and is distribution-based. It is also semantically characterized by a link to FrameNet’ssemanticframesto represent the event expressed by a class. However, the new Italian classes maintain the hierarchic “tree” structure and monotonic nature of VerbNet’s classes, and, where possible, the original names (e.g.: Verbs of Killing, Verbs of Putting, etc.). We therefore propose here a taxonomy compatible with VerbNet but at the same time adapted to Italian syntax and semantics. It also addresses a number of problems intrinsic to the original classifications, such as the role of argument alternations, here regarded simply as epiphenomena, consistently with the constructionist approach.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1419
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2633–2642
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1419
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Lucia Busso and Alessandro Lenci. 2016. Italian VerbNet: A Construction-based Approach to Italian Verb Classification. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2633–2642, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Italian VerbNet: A Construction-based Approach to Italian Verb Classification (Busso & Lenci, LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/paclic-22-ingestion/L16-1419.pdf