Event structure: Taxonomy, semantic roles, aspect, causation

Elena Viktorovna Paducheva · Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics · 2009

The paper describes the database “Lexicographer”, which presents a deep syntactic analysis of the Russian verb. Taxonomy, argument structure, aspectuality and causation are demonstrated to be deducible from semantic decomposition of a lexeme. The database is regarded as a theory of event structure in Russian.

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