Verb-patient co-occurrences in Internet texts and verb meaning in memory

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 630-645

  Declercq, Christelle ^a   Le Ny, Jean François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Co occurrences; Distributional information; Patient typicality; Verb meaning; Verb patients

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649118986     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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