Abstract
This study introduces a frame-based, morpho-constructional approach to sense distinction and categorization. It combines frame semantics and constructional grammar for the analysis of verbal semantics. It is proposed that verb meanings are anchored in semantic frames, which can be defined with frame-specific roles in constructional patterns. While verbs and constructions are both form-meaning pairing constructs, they are mutually feeding and complementing as in a Gestalt relation. The approach can be effectively and systematically applied to the investigation of frame-specific subclasses, verb-specific polysemous distinctions, and finer differentiation of near-synonymous sets. It may also be used in cross-linguistic comparisons of verb frames and constructional schemes. Case studies from Chinese emotion verbs and caused-motion verbs are provided as illustrations of how the proposed approach can facilitate a linguistically-motivated analysis of verbal semantics.
| Translated title of the contribution | A Frame-based Morpho-constructional Approach to Verb Distinction and Categorization in Chinese: 基於語料庫實證的漢語動詞語義分析與分類 |
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| Original language | Chinese (Simplified) |
| Title of host publication | 实证和语料库语言学前沿 |
| Editors | 揭春雨, 刘美君 |
| Publisher | 中国社会科学出版社 |
| Chapter | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9787520328319 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Information for this record is supplemented by the author(s) concerned.Research Keywords
- 动词分类
- 框架语义
- 构式语法
- 语料库分析
- 词汇语义句法接口
- 语言特性
- verb classification
- frame semantics
- construction gramm
- corpus analysis
- lexical semantics-syntax interface
- language-specific property