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"This cognitive contrastive study in ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the verb give and its syntactic-semantic interface based on six main points, namely argument structure, lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the three argument construction and in other constructions, lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb from a cognitive construction grammar point of view (lexicon-grammar continuum), central and extended meanings. We propose that a continuum approach to grammar and lexicon is needed to describe the typological and historical facts. We argue that there is a concrete and abstract transfer 'cluster model' involving coverage of lexical and grammatical extension or bleaching phenomena and that the semantic extensions (metaphorical and otherwise) exploit various portions of this schema. This book, deeply anchored into the Cognitive Construction Grammar theoretical movement, proposes analyses of constructional phenomena which illustrate a grammar to lexicon continuum, in synchrony and diachrony: language change, grammaticalization chains, constructionalization analysis, and an invariant hypothesis of the verb give as a basic verb in human cognition"--

Construction grammar --- Semantics, Comparative. --- Data processing. --- Comparative semantics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Semantics, Comparative --- Lexical grammar

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This text concerns the interpretation and structure of non-verbal predicates in copular sentences (i.e. sentences with the verb 'be'). The author provides a unifying analysis based on a ternary distinction between defining/characterizing/ situation-descriptive predicates.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics, Comparative. --- Copula. --- Syntax. --- Verbi --- Verbi. --- Semantics, Comparative --- Comparative semantics --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Copula (Grammar) --- Copula --- Semantics --- Verb phrase --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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This book demonstrates how the underlying principles of the English-based FrameNet project are successfully applied to the description and analysis of typologically diverse languages. The stimulating collection of articles brings together insights from lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, computational lexicography, machine learning, and psychology to address three main questions: To what degree is it possible to apply semantic frames derived from the English lexicon to the description and analysis of other languages? What types of resources are necessary for the creation of FrameNets for French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, and Spanish? How can the creation of multi-lingual FrameNets be automated? The contents exemplifies the liveliness of current research on cross-lingual applications of Frame Semantics to natural language processing.

Lexicography --- Semantics, Comparative. --- Comparative semantics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Computational linguistics --- Data processing. --- Semantics --- Computational Linguistics. --- Corpus Linguistics. --- Lexicography. --- Semantics.

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Structural linguistics --- Semantics, Comparative. --- Construction grammar. --- Linguistic change. --- Computational linguistics. --- Complement. --- Data processing.

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The aspectual interpretation of sentences is constrained by the truth conditions predicates impose on points of times or time intervals. Using data from English, Vendler (1967) established a classification of four verb types on these grounds, that has been widely accepted in linguistic theory. Various researchers, among them Dowty (1979) for English and Ehrich (1992) for German, have proposed finer grained classifications. This paper is very much in the spirit of these proposals. Our aim is a detailed model of the compositional lexical semantics of predicates that models the contrasts of verba

Semantics, Comparative. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Categorial grammar. --- Verb --- Comparative semantics --- Grammar, Categorial --- Aspect (Linguistics) --- Verb. --- Aspect. --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- Semantics --- Verbal aspect --- Temporal constructions --- Linguistics --- Philology