Semantic and syntactic properties of verbs of communication
- This essay is concerned with the event structure of verbs of communication. Some verbs of communication cannot easily be classified as belonging to a particular type of event structure, while others are basically Activity predicates. We show that this difference with respect to event structure depends on the lexicalization of speaker attitudes. Those verbs of communication which do not express any particular speaker attitude can be assigned an Activity event structure, which can then be expanded to yield an Accomplishment. However, genuine speech act verbs, i. e. verbs which are specified with respect to speaker attitudes, do not correspond to any event structure type and do not allow a similar expansion of their argument structure.
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| Author: | Kristel Proost, Daniel Glatz |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-35378 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the Ninth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2000, Stuttgart, Germany, August 8th - 12th, 2000. Vol. 2 |
| Publisher: | Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung |
| Place of publication: | Stuttgart |
| Editor: | Ulrich Heid |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2000 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/03/09 |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Kommunikation; Semantik; Verb |
| First Page: | 693 |
| Last Page: | 698 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Semantik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Deutschland |