[Lexicog] Semantics of verbs

[John Roberts]

Two books I have found useful in helping to understand the meanings of verbs
are

Beth Levin (1993) English Verb Classes and Alternations. University of
Chicago Press.
James Pustejovsky (1998) The Generative Lexicon. The MIT Press.

Also Goddard (1998) has a useful section entitled "How to know whether
you're coming or going."

Cliff Goddard (1998) Semantic Analysis. A Practical Introduction. Oxford
University Press.

John Roberts
SIL


----- Original Message -----
From: "Helge Gundersen" <helge.gundersen at inl.uio.no>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:16 PM
Subject: [Lexicog] Semantics of verbs


>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.
>
> Thank you,
> Helge Gundersen
> Oslo, Norway
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