Twenty adjectives belonging to five intuitively recognizable semantic families, age (old, young), size (large, small, big), color (black, white, red, yellow, blue), modality (possible, impossible, necessary, likely, sure) and emotion (happy, sad, glad, sorry) were inventoried in a 5-million word corpus tagged for part of speech (POS) and lemma. Regular expressions were used to target specific contextual parameters including syntactic function (adnominal or predicative), determiners, grammatical subject and intensifiers, while manual estimates were obtained from random samples of 500 occurrences per adjective. Benchmark data, for purposes of comparison, were first collected for the category as a whole using POS tags, from which it was observ...
This paper focuses on a class of English adjectives that are subject to important restrictions on th...
This paper aims at describing Latin compound verbs (CVs) whose second member is a verbal constituent...
peer reviewedTalmy’s “greater modal system”: fitting in verbo-nominal constructions with chance(s) ...
International audienceIt has often been noted that attributive adjectives in French can be placed be...
Parmi les différentes manières de former un adjectif, l’une d’entre elles est le recours à un verbe ...
peer reviewedThis paper examines the diachronic development of constructions with nouns that denote ...
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In natural languages, especially the Romance ones, there is a certain number of lexical units which...
peer reviewedThis paper focusses on constructions with nouns that denote something unexpected or ast...
peer reviewedPerhaps the most puzzling of the Dutch vestigial genitives is the partitive genitive wi...
Eliciting Verb Inflection in the English Language – The Verb and Noun Test (VAN) for Presurgical Lan...
peer reviewedThe semantic category of modality specializes in expressing the relation between text a...
The notion adverb is often treated as encompassing leftover items in a class that shows little consi...
Throughout this article on the adjective function, our main goal lays on the fact of the wide range ...
This thematic issue presents a collection of six papers devoted to the adjective category which illu...
This paper focuses on a class of English adjectives that are subject to important restrictions on th...
This paper aims at describing Latin compound verbs (CVs) whose second member is a verbal constituent...
peer reviewedTalmy’s “greater modal system”: fitting in verbo-nominal constructions with chance(s) ...
International audienceIt has often been noted that attributive adjectives in French can be placed be...
Parmi les différentes manières de former un adjectif, l’une d’entre elles est le recours à un verbe ...
peer reviewedThis paper examines the diachronic development of constructions with nouns that denote ...
peer reviewedThis paper focuses on a set of English clausal expressions containing the negative inde...
In natural languages, especially the Romance ones, there is a certain number of lexical units which...
peer reviewedThis paper focusses on constructions with nouns that denote something unexpected or ast...
peer reviewedPerhaps the most puzzling of the Dutch vestigial genitives is the partitive genitive wi...
Eliciting Verb Inflection in the English Language – The Verb and Noun Test (VAN) for Presurgical Lan...
peer reviewedThe semantic category of modality specializes in expressing the relation between text a...
The notion adverb is often treated as encompassing leftover items in a class that shows little consi...
Throughout this article on the adjective function, our main goal lays on the fact of the wide range ...
This thematic issue presents a collection of six papers devoted to the adjective category which illu...
This paper focuses on a class of English adjectives that are subject to important restrictions on th...
This paper aims at describing Latin compound verbs (CVs) whose second member is a verbal constituent...
peer reviewedTalmy’s “greater modal system”: fitting in verbo-nominal constructions with chance(s) ...