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- The paper argues that the presence of certain semantic participant information in verbs can depend on whether that information is seen as necessary (obligatory) or specific to certain types of verbs (verb class).
- The authors conducted a thorough examination of English verbs, along with two studies involving sentence continuation and processing, to investigate these factors.
- Results from their research support the idea that both semantic obligatoriness and verb class play a significant role in determining how participant information is encoded in the verbs.
Article Abstract
It is commonly assumed across the language sciences that some semantic participant information is lexically encoded in the representation of verbs and some is not. In this paper, we propose that semantic obligatoriness and verb class specificity are criteria which influence whether semantic information is lexically encoded. We present a comprehensive survey of the English verbal lexicon, a sentence continuation study, and an on-line sentence processing study which confirm that both factors play a role in the lexical encoding of participant information.
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