Abstract
I have presented in this book a metalanguage capable of expressing the main facts relating to verb valencies. The elaboration of the metalanguage led us to discuss a number of theoretical points, such as syntactic functions, the definition of semantic roles, and the mechanisms responsible for the coding of semantic roles into syntactic structures. The metalanguage was arrived at as the result of a considerable body of research, based on observed data of Portuguese.
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This second procedure also ultimately depends on introspection. See Perini and Othero (2011), where we examine the conditions on the use of corpora in linguistic research.
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By the same token, a linking rule can also be quantified, so that some will be “more prototypical” than others; see note on Sect. 8.5.1 above.
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That is, the verb ver evokes no schema including an “agent”.
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Apanhar has a subject Patient in its reading ‘be spanked’; and it has a subject Agent when it means ‘pick up’.
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The fact that αRef is necessarily paired certainly has a role in this process.
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In practice, “argument realization” can be understood as an alternative designation for “semantic role coding”.
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For instance, the one that prohibits an object NP to be assigned the role Agent.
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This is the case with all statements in linguistics, after all.
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“Resource” is how FrameNet calls this CSR.
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An example of distributional idiosyncrasy is the verb wreak, normally used only with havoc or vengeance as object.
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As of April, 2015, the list comprises 232 diatheses; but work is only beginning.
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Cf. Maurice Gross (1975), p. 20.
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Cf. Chomsky (1964), p. 62ff.
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Which, here, is relevant.
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In the current VVP valency dictionary, the transitive diathesis appears in the valencies of a little over 50 % of all verbs.
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‘(> “agent”)’ and the like stands for a variable still to be filled in.
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Possibly, the main function of the role Patient here is merely to contrast this element with the Agent, which is not affected by the denoted event.
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Perini, M.A. (2015). Summary. In: Describing Verb Valency. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20985-2_12
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