Beth Levin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Beth Levin is involved.
2014 Manner and result: A view from clean Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 337–358 | Article
As a deadjectival verb, English clean should be a clear-cut result verb, yet it often shows hallmarks of a manner verb. This paper investigates this dual behavior in light of manner/result complementarity: the proposal that verbs lexicalize either manner or result meaning components, but not both.… read more
2008 Dative verbs: A crosslinguistic perspective 25th Lexis and Grammar Conference, Mirto, Ignazio Mauro (ed.), pp. 285–312 | Article
2000 Classifying Single Argument Verbs Lexical Specification and Insertion, Coopmans, Peter, Martin B.H. Everaert and Jane Grimshaw (eds.), pp. 269–304 | Article
1997 Making Sense of Corpus Data: A Case Study of Verbs of Sound International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2:1, pp. 23–64 | Article
This paper demonstrates the essential role of corpus data in the development of a theory that explains and predicts word behavior. We make this point through a case study of verbs of sound, drawing our evidence primarily from the British National Corpus. We begin by considering pretheoretic… read more