List of semantic features

[Lorraine McCune]

For verbs a good place to start is Talmy's motion event analysis. 
This is quite robust and has solid links to early cognition.

But I assume you all are aware of this. I look forward to others responses.

At 08:04 AM 2/5/2010, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>We are also interested in the semantic features and specially in
>verbs. Do anybody know a tool or something to identify words through
>semantic features? We are working with disabled children and this list
>could help us a lot in our work.
>
>We really would like to share such kind of information with you, Ben.
>
>Thanks,
>Teresa
>
>On 5 feb, 13:32, "Ambridge, Ben" <Ben.Ambri... at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> > First of all, I don't know anything about this area, so please 
> forgive me if this question is spectacularly ignorant!
> >
> > Does anyone know if anybody has ever attempted to produce a 
> reasonably exhaustive list of semantic features (e.g., MOTION, 
> CAUSE etc...) which can be "present", "absent" or "indifferent" for 
> each of a given set of items (I'm mainly interested in verbs, but also nouns).
> >
> > I'm not looking for articles that debate the merits of 
> componential analysis (with reference to only a few example 
> features) or articles that group together verbs in terms of similar 
> semantics (e.g., Levin, 1993) - just the longest possible list of 
> candidate semantic features.
> >
> > To avoid cluttering everyone's inboxes, please reply to me 
> directly - 
> Ben.Ambri... at Liverpool.ac.uk<mailto:Ben.Ambri... at Liverpool.ac.uk> 
> -  and I'll post a summary to the list.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Ben
>
>--
>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google 
>Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.
>To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com.
>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
>info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
>For more options, visit this group at 
>http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en.

Lorraine McCune, EdD
Chair, Department of Educational Psychology
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers University
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Ph: 732-932-7496 ex. 8310
FAX: 732932-6829

Web Page: www.gse.rutgers.edu

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.
To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en.