Event Selection and Coercion of Two Verbs of Ingestion: A MARVS Perspective
Jia-Fei Hong, Chu‐Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens · International Journal of Computer Processing Of Languages · 2008
Event semantics in general and event type coercion in particular have been a challeng-ing yet rewarding topic in verbal semantics (Pustejovsky, 1995). However, there have been few corpus-based empirical accounts discussing the range of event type coer-cions based on the lexical meanings of the verbs. In this paper, we explore the possi-ble types of event coercions for two verbs of ingestion in Mandarin Chinese. In par-ticular, we will show that different types of coercions can be predicted by the bifurca-tion of event-internal and role-internal at-tributes proposed in the MARVS theory (Huang et al, 2000). Data examined are taken from the Chinese Gigaword Corpus (LDC 2005) and accessed through Chinese Word Sketch (Huang et al, 2005). 1