FrameNet and its limitations. The case of entity-specific change-of-state verbs

Rosca, Andreea

Resumen: The main concern of this study is to provide a critical examination of the treatment proposed by the FrameNet project (Atkins, Fillmore and Johnson 2003; Fillmore, Johnson and Petruck 2003) for entity-specific change-of-state verbs. We have focused on this verbal class in order to demonstrate that these verbs display a much richer variety of valence patterns than has been claimed in Levin (1993), Wright (2002) or elsewhere. Levin (1993) and Wright (2002) highlight only the (non)-participation
of the verbs under consideration in the causative/inchoative alternation, thus neglecting constructions such as the intransitive resultative, the intransitive causal, the way-construction, the resultative construction, among many others. Although FrameNet serves to document the distributional range of entity-specific change-ofstate verbs, it will be shown that this database is often incomplete and it does not offer any conceptual motivation for the lexical-constructional behavior of these verbs. FrameNet is a project developed by Fillmore and his colleagues at the
International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley which is based on Fillmore’s frame semantics model. A frame is defined as “the knowledge network linking the multiple domains associated with a given linguistic form” (Taylor 1995: 87). Frames are static configurations of culture-based, shared and conventionalized knowledge.

Idioma: Inglés

Año: 2013

Publicado en: Miscelánea (Zaragoza) 47 (2013), 13-30
ISSN: 1137-6368

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)