This paper aims at shedding lights on the complex semantic concept of "event noun". Starting with the working hypothesis that linguistic context and corpus-based distributional information can be decisive, we propose a measure for eventivity that relies on syntagmatic cues. By means of a comparison between syntagmatic evidence obtained from a corpus study and speakers' judgments, we have identified a measure of eventivity for nouns. The comparison with annotated data proves its soundness.

Converging evidences on the eventivity of Italian nouns

Irene Russo;
2014

Abstract

This paper aims at shedding lights on the complex semantic concept of "event noun". Starting with the working hypothesis that linguistic context and corpus-based distributional information can be decisive, we propose a measure for eventivity that relies on syntagmatic cues. By means of a comparison between syntagmatic evidence obtained from a corpus study and speakers' judgments, we have identified a measure of eventivity for nouns. The comparison with annotated data proves its soundness.
2014
Istituto di linguistica computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" - ILC
978-3-943460-87-2
event nominals
syntagmatic cues
degree of eventivity
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