[Lexicog] Semantics of verbs

Melissa Axelrod axelrod at UNM.EDU
Tue Sep 28 17:26:10 UTC 2004


There's a very good dissertation on the semantics of HOLD from a
cognitive semantics perspective, written by Paula Bramante at the U of
New Mexico.
  Melissa


Helge Gundersen wrote:

>I have a colleague who has finished her entry for the Norwegian equivalent
>of HAVE, and will soon embark on COME. This is for a 12-volume monolingual
>dictionary of Norwegian (a Germanic language), so we are talking about
>articles several or more pages long in fine print. She would like to read
>herself up on the semantics of verbs, and I wonder if any of you can
>recommend literature (in English, French, German or any of the Scandinavian
>languages) which has proved, or might prove, useful as a theoretical
>background for dealing with senses of verbs in a dictionary. The literature
>doesn't have to mention lexicography -- she can make out the relevance herself.
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>Thank you,
>Helge Gundersen
>Oslo, Norway
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