In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for studying the English verb lexicon She shows how identifying verbs with similar syntactic behavior provides an effective means of distinguishing semantically coherent verb classes, and isolates these classes by examining verb behavior with respect to a wide range of syntactic alternations that reflect verb meaning The first part of the book sets out alternate ways in which verbs can express their arguments The second presents classes of verbs that share a kernel of meaning and explores in detail the behavior of each class, drawing on the alternations in the first part Levin's discussion of each class and alternation includes lists of relevant verbs, illustrative examples, comments on noteworthy properties, and bibliographic references The result is an original, systematic picture of the organization of the verb inventory Easy to use, "English Verb Classes and Alternations" sets the stage for further explorations of the interface between lexical semantics and syntax It will prove indispensable for theoretical and computational linguists, psycholinguists, cognitive scientists, lexicographers, and teachers of English as a second language Beth Levin is associate professor of linguistics at Northwestern University

English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation

List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Introduction Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai 1 Language as Code and Language as Behaviour: A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue M.A.K. Halliday 2 Metaphors of Information John Regan 3 How Universal is a Localist Hypothesis? A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of 'Semantic Styles' of Language Yoshihiko Ikegami 4 Some Speculations on Language Contact in a Wider Setting Jeffrey Ellis 5 Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning Ruqaiya Hasan Index

Language as social semiotic

It is planned to publish this paper in three parts, in this and the two subsequent issues of the Journal of Linguistics. The three parts will consist respectively of the numbered sections 1–3, 4–7 and 8–10; references to section 4 onwards are thus to forthcoming parts of the paper. Sections 1–3 contain observations concerning transitivity; 4–7 deal with what is here referred to as ‘theme’, a general term for all those choices involving the distribution of information in the clause; in 8–10, transitivity is reconsidered in the light of certain further problems and of what has been said about theme, and some generalization is attempted.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022226700016613

Notes on transitivity and theme in english. part 2

http://psych.colorado.edu/~kimlab/Gibson.1998.pdf

Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

English Word Grammar

Part 1 Theory: general introduction propositions and their formal properties default inheritance linguistic and non-linguistic concepts categories in language syntactic structures semantic structures. Part 2 English: word classes morphology dependency types word order simple clauses some lexical entries for verbs the simple noun phrase some lexical entries for nouns passives extraction/topics, interrogatives and relatives co-ordination.

English word grammar

1. Introduction 2. Morphology 3. Syntax 4. Gerunds 5. Meaning: Semantics and Sociolinguistics References Index

Language Networks: The New Word Grammar

Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death

This textbook spans a broad range of topics from prototypes, activation, and default inheritance to the details of syntatic, morphological, and sematic structure. It introduces elementary ideas from cognitive science and uses them to explain the structure of language including a survey of English grammar.

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Richard Hudson

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English Word Grammar

English word grammar

Language Networks: The New Word Grammar

Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death

An Introduction to Word Grammar