Alternace konstrukcí s aktorem a instrumentem v paralelním česko-anglickém závislostním korpusu

• Authors: Jana Šindlerová , Vladislav Kuboň , Aleš Tamchyna , Kateřina Veselovská

Title variants

EN

The actor instrument alternation in a parallel Czech-English dependency treebank

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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This paper analyzes one type of valency structure difference in a bilingual, Czech-English valency lexicon and a parallel syntactically annotated treebank, namely the instances of instrument subject alternation, abstract cause subject alternation and locatum subject alternation (Levin 1993), roughly corresponding to three specific verb semantic classes. These alternations represent a problematic point of mutual alignment of valency structures in a parallel corpus and a bilingual valency lexicon because of the dual possible assignment of a semantic role to the position of a syntactic subject, and consequently, the dual interpretation of the deep-syntactic role of an actor. As a result, two different interpretations arise, an agentive one and a non-agentive one, which collide in the syntactically annotated data. The conflict of the two interpretations substantially influences the semantic interpretation of the “target of evaluation” in constructions involving evaluative verbs in sentiment analysis tasks. We discuss the problem through linking individual syntactic, semantic and situational participants, focusing both on the similarities and differences between the three alternation types in question, providing analogies to other known constructions, and studying them from the morphosyntactic, semantic and propositional content points of view.

Keywords

CS

paralelní korpus; valence sloves; alternace; evaluativní slovesa; potlačení agentu

EN

parallel corpus; verb valency; alternations; evaluative verbs; agent demoting

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-46
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Jana Šindlerová

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Vladislav Kuboň

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Aleš Tamchyna

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Kateřina Veselovská

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic