[Corpora-List] Semantic Distances Revisited - levin

[Christopher Brewster]

My understanding of Levin is that she shows that semantically related verbs
show the same syntactic behaviour but NOT that verbs with the same syntactic
behaviour are necessarily semanticly related: "the syntactic behaviour of a
verb [is] to be predicted from its meaning (Levin 1993).

There is a significant difference. The so called 'distributional hypothesis"
(which some writer attribute to Zelig Harris 'Distributional Structure'
1985) has never to my knowledge been show to hold.

Christopher Brewster

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