In:Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German
Ryan Dux
[Constructional Approaches to Language 28] 2020
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Published online: 24 November 2020
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1.Introduction
1
1.1Introduction
1
1.1.1Overview and purpose
1
1.1.2The intuitive basis of verb classes
2
1.2Verb class research
4
1.2.1Various approaches to verb classes
4
1.2.2Insights from cognitive and usage-based linguistics
8
1.2.3Verb classes across domains and languages
11
1.3Overview and structure of the monograph
13
1.3.1Theoretical background
13
1.3.2A novel approach to verb classes
15
1.3.3Comparative aspects of verb classes
17
1.3.4Data, scope, limitations
18
Chapter 2.Approaches to verb classification
21
2.1Lexical semantics, syntax-semantics interface, and verb classes: An overview
21
2.1.1Lexical semantics
21
2.1.2Goals and challenges of verb classification and syntax-semantics interface research
23
2.2Role-based approaches to argument realization
26
2.3Event-structural approaches to argument realization and verb classes
31
2.3.1The relation between event structure, verb meaning, and argument realization
31
2.3.2Problems with event-structural approaches
37
2.4Levin’s (1993) alternation-based classification of English verbs
41
2.4.1Overview
41
2.4.2Change verbs in Levin (1993)
44
2.4.3Evaluation of Levin (1993)
46
2.4.4The status of argument structure alternations
48
2.4.5Summary
49
2.5Summary and conclusion
50
Chapter 3.Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Valency Grammar
53
3.1Frame Semantics
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3.1.1Background and introduction to Frame Semantics
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3.1.2FrameNet classes, Frame Elements, Lexical Units, and the FrameNet hierarchy
56
3.1.3Comparing Frame Semantics to other approaches to the syntaxsemantics interface
63
3.1.4Problems with Frame Semantics
70
3.1.5Summary
74
3.2Construction Grammar
75
3.2.1Construction Grammar: An introduction
75
3.2.2Principles of CxG
78
3.2.3Constructional approaches to argument realization
87
3.2.4Change verbs in CxG
98
3.2.5Summary of CxG
100
3.3Valency Grammar
101
3.3.1Introduction and the VDE
101
3.3.2Faulhaber (2011) and the idiosyncratic nature of verb valency
102
3.3.3Valency constructions and argument structure constructions
104
3.4Conclusion
110
Chapter 4.English Change verbs
113
4.1Introduction
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4.2Semantics of English Change Verbs
116
4.2.1Method
116
4.2.2Meaning components of English Change verbs
118
4.2.3Summary of English Change verb meanings
120
4.3Valency of English Change verbs
124
4.3.1Data, methodology, and terminology
124
4.3.2English Change VCs: Overview
128
4.3.3Results of corpus analysis
130
4.3.4Summary of corpus valency analysis
135
4.4The English Change frame-constructional verb class
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4.4.1Approach
141
4.4.2The semantics of the English Change FCVC
144
4.4.3The syntax of the English Change FCVC
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4.5Multi-grained verb entries and (syntactic-semantic) subclasses
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4.5.1Contents of multi-grained verb entries
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4.5.2MGVEs for English Change verbs
168
4.5.3Implications of the MGVE approach
172
4.5.4Syntactic-semantic subclasses and refining MGVEs
173
4.6Testing the FCVC approach and a “Drastic Change” subclass
177
4.6.1Can FCVCs predict argument realization?
177
4.6.2Meaning and valency behavior of metamorphose
178
4.6.3Assessing the accuracy (predictive power) of the Change FCVC
180
4.6.4A “Drastic Change” subclass?
182
4.7Conclusion
184
Chapter 5.Comparing Theft verbs to Change verbs
187
5.1Introduction
187
5.1.1Overview
187
5.1.2Theft verbs in Levin (1993) and FrameNet
188
5.1.3Verb descriptivity of Change and Theft verbs
191
5.1.4Outline of chapter
193
5.2Comparing the meanings of English Theft and Change Verbs
194
5.2.1The meanings of English Theft verbs
194
5.2.2Comparison of English Theft and Change meanings
196
5.2.3Verb descriptivity, frequency, and concreteness
200
5.3Comparing English Theft and Change valency constructions and their features
202
5.3.1Valency constructions of English Theft verbs
203
5.3.2Comparing English Theft and Change VCs and issues in delimiting VCs
207
5.3.3Frame-sensitive syntactic features
214
5.4Variation among Theft verbs and the need for multi-grained verb entries
218
5.5Conclusion
221
Chapter 6.A contrastive perspective: German Change and Theft Verbs
225
6.1Background and outline of the contrastive change verb analysis
225
6.1.1Previous contrastive research on verb meaning
226
6.1.2Previous contrastive research on verb valency and constructions
228
6.1.3Overview of contrastive Change verb analyses
231
6.2Change verbs in German and English
233
6.2.1Meanings of German Change verbs
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6.2.2Valency constructions of German Change verbs
237
6.2.3Comparing German and English Change valency constructions
241
6.2.4Valency behavior of German Change verbs
251
6.2.5Grammatically relevant meaning components of Change verbs in German and English
262
6.2.6Conclusion of contrastive Change verb analysis
266
6.3Theft verbs in German and English: Verb descriptivity in contrastive analysis
267
6.3.1Introduction and review of contrastive research on Theft verbs
267
6.3.2Theft verb meanings in German and English
271
6.3.3Comparing the contrastive analyses of Theft and Change valency constructions
276
6.4Summary and conclusion
284
Chapter 7.Conclusion
285
7.1Summary
285
7.2Conclusions and implications
289
7.3Limitations and outlook
295
Bibliography
299
Author Index
313
Verb Class Index
315
Subject Index
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