Keyword

verb semantics

Description: The study of meaning and semantic structure associated with verbs, in linguistics and language acquisition research.

Primary topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (59%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/verb-semantics

Verbs semantics and lexical selection

1994 · Zhibiao Wu, Martha Palmer · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 3,202

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The Logical Form of Action Sentences

1967 · Donald Davidson · University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks · 1,624

Semantic Influences On Parsing: Use of Thematic Role Information in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution

1994 · J.C. Trueswell, M.K. Tanenhaus, et al. · Journal of Memory and Language · 1,174

The time-course of prediction in incremental sentence processing: Evidence from anticipatory eye movements

2003 · Yuki Kamide, Gerry T.M Altmann, et al. · Journal of Memory and Language · 960

Argument Realization

2005 · Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport Hovav · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 924

Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax

2009 · Gillian Ramchand · 905

Words in the mind: An introduction to the mental lexicon. 2nd edn. By Jean Aitchison. Oxford & Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994. Pp. xiii, 290.

1996 · Detlef Stark · Language · 875

More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations

1993 · Martin Haspelmath · Studies in language companion series · 844

VerbNet: A broad-coverage, comprehensive verb lexicon

2005 · Schuler, K. · Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania) · 828

The projection of arguments: Lexical and compositional factors . Ed. by Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder (CSLI lecture notes 83). Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1998. Pp. vii, 363.

2000 · Michael Dukes · Language · 755

Learning argument structure generalizations

2004 · Adele E. Goldberg, Devin M. Casenhiser, et al. · Cognitive Linguistics · 680

The Learnability and Acquisition of the Dative Alternation in English

1989 · Jess Gropen, Steven Pinker, et al. · Language · 646

2 Reflections on Manner/Result Complementarity

2010 · Malka Rappaport Hovav, Beth Levin · 594

Measure of change: The adjectival core of degree achievements

2008 · Christopher Kennedy, Beth Levin · 519

Argument Realization

2005 · Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport Hovav · 514

A Theory of Aspectuality

1993 · Henk J. Verkuyl · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 508

A Semantic Approach to English Grammar

2005 · R M W Dixon · 489

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Verb Semantics and Lexical Selection

1994 · Wu, Zhibiao, Palmer, Martha · arXiv (Cornell University) · 480

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4. Verbs and Times

2019 · Zeno Vendler · Cornell University Press eBooks · 469

Integrating Verbs, Situation Schemas, and Thematic Role Concepts

2001 · Todd R. Ferretti, Ken McRae, et al. · Journal of Memory and Language · 424

Second language acquisition and linguistic theory

2000 · John Archibald · 397

Some observations on factivity

1971 · Lauri Karttunen · Paper in Linguistics · 395

Class-Based Construction of a Verb Lexicon

2000 · Karin Kipper, Hoa Trang Dang, et al. · 390

Neuroanatomical distribution of five semantic components of verbs: Evidence from fMRI

2007 · David Kemmerer, Javier Gonzalez Castillo, et al. · Brain and Language · 388

Intransitive verbs and Italian auxiliaries

1981 · Luigi Burzio · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 386

Works count: 17,800

Citation count: 90,170