Aspectual Flexibility Increases with Agentivity and Concreteness

Ingrid Falk (1) , Fabienne Martin (1)

1 University of Stuttgart

We present an experimental study making use of a machine learning approach to identify the factors that affect the aspectual value that characterises polysemous verbs under each of their readings. The study is based on various morpho-syntactic and semantic features collected from a French lexical resource and on a gold standard aspectual classification of verb readings designed by an expert. Our results support the tested hypothesis, namely that agentivity and abstractness influence lexical aspect.

Mots clés: aspectual flexibility; French lexicon; lexical aspect

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document

Ingrid Falk, Fabienne Martin. Aspectual Flexibility Increases with Agentivity and Concreteness : A Computational Classification Experiment on Polysemous Verbs. Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia. pp.1212-1220. ⟨hal-01323545⟩