Motion verbs and semantic features in TAG
Tonia Bleam, Martha Stone Palmer, K. Vijay‐Shanker · 1998
Introduction We show how the domain of locality in a TAG elementary tree, (Frank 1992), can be extended through adjunction to include optional arguments for a class of motion verbs and how the adjunctions can be restricted appropriately through the use of semantic features. Some examples of motion verbs we consider are shown in Table ??, which categorizes the verbs according to Levin classes (Levin 1993). Note that we are using a broader definition of "motion" verbs than Levin's class 51. VIDMs Roll Run Force Carry arrive float jump press carry enter roll run pull lug escape slide slide push pull exit rotate walk push turn Table 1: Levin Classes of Verbs Involving Motion These verbs are classified according to their syntactic behavior, which is taken to be a reflection of their underlying semantic properties. Motion verbs are able to occur with path phrases, where the term "path" is used as a cover term for source, goal, via