conference lundi 14 mai

[Anne Abeillé]

chers collegues

Lundi 14 mai a 14h
l'UFR de linguistique accueillera une conference de

> Eunkyung Yi et Jean-Pierre Koenig (Buffalo State University)
>
>
> "Why verb meaning matters to syntax: Evidence for the Semantic  
> Anchor Hypothesis"
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> It is a common place that verbs that occur in a syntactic frame  
> tend to have similar meanings. But why? In this talk, we suggest that
> this fact is caused by a combination of syntactic and semantic  
> priming. When producing a message to describe an event e, verbs  
> whose meanings describe similar
> events are also activated. If one of those additionally activated  
> verbs is strongly associated with a particular syntactic frame (say  
> "give" for the ditransitive construction), that association will  
> increase the
> activation of that syntactic frame, biasing speakers to use that  
> construction when describing e rather than an alternate frame. We  
> call our hypothesis the Semantic Anchor Hypothesis.

> We present the results of two corpus studies and four experiments  
> that support that hypothesis.
>
venez nombreux

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