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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Dear all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>First of all, I don’t
know anything about this area, so please forgive me if this question is
spectacularly ignorant!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>To avoid cluttering everyone’s
inboxes, please reply to me directly – <a
href="mailto:Ben.Ambridge@Liverpool.ac.uk">Ben.Ambridge@Liverpool.ac.uk</a> - and
I’ll post a summary to the list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Ben</span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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