English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation

by Beth Levin

Book Overview

In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for studying the English verb lexicon. She shows how identifying verbs with similar syntactic behavior provides an effective means of distinguishing semantically coherent verb classes, and isolates these classes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226475336
• ISBN13: 9780226475332
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"