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Distributed Representations of Lexical Sets and Prototypes in Causal Alternation Verbs
IJCoL, 2017 Lexical sets contain the words filling an argument slot of a verb, and are in part determined by selectional preferences. The purpose of this paper is to unravel the properties of lexical sets through distributional semantics.
Edoardo Maria Ponti +2 more
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How vague can one be? Rational preferences without completeness or transitivity [PDF]
What can it mean for preferences to be rational when transitivity or completenss are not assumed? In this paper we provide a framework and a set of conditions to deal with this question.
Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti
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Ergative diagnostics: temptatio redux
Linguistik Online, 2003 In the past 20 years, a new class of verbs has seen the light of existence: 'unaccusative' or 'ergative' verbs. These verbs are intransitive, but different from the traditional notion of intransitive to the extent that their subject valency behaves like ...
Werner Abraham
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Atypical Compound Verb Constructions in Hindi/Urdu
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2020 While a lot of research has already been done on defining compound verb constructions and understanding their semantic and pragmatic usages, there is still a gap when it comes to our understanding of atypical compound verb constructions where ...
Drocco, Andrea, Tiwari, Neha
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This is an elicitation of a paradigm for intransitive verbs in ...
Jana, Dibyajyoti
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Les verbes de parole et la question de l’(in)transitivité
Discours, 2017 The focus of the paper is the relationship between the syntax and the semantics of speech verbs. We hypothesize that speech verbs are naturally transitive because they refer to an activity which normally entails an object, viz. the produced speech.
Béatrice Lamiroy, Michel Charolles
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Review of African Political Economy, 2002 Efforts to promote a ‘democratic transition’ in Congo go back to April 1990 when Mobutu declared the end of the Second Republic. Since then, and despite the changing regimes and conditions experienced under Mobutu and the Kabilas, father and son, the rhetoric of democratisation has had little relationship to the realities of power struggles.
Gauthier de Villers +1 more
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Intransitive Indifference and Revealed Preference [PDF]
Econometrica, 1987 In recent years, there have appeared several important papers discussing numerical representations of preference, without the assumption of transitive indifference. The following weak forms of transitivity have been introduced: \(\succcurlyeq\) is semitransitive if and only if \(x\succcurlyeq y\succ z\succ w\) or \(x\succ y\succ z\succcurlyeq w ...
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Estonian Middle Semantics with Evidence from Discourse
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 This paper presents arguments for recognizing a middle voice in Estonian. The claim that the semantics of middle-marked verbs differs in a substantial way from the semantics of other intransitive constructions leads to the examination of the discourse ...
Virve-Anneli Vihman
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