Re: Corpora: Beth Levin's verb classes

Pete Whitelock (pete@sharp.co.uk)
Thu, 09 Sep 1999 09:34:53 +0100

The main problem with the resource that Dragomir points us to is that
the index is a map from verbs to sections where they appear - and
whether they appear as examples of, or counter-examples to, the
behaviour of the class is not specified.

Pete

"Dragomir R. Radev" wrote:
>
> Check
>
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/levin.html
>
> Here is the copyright notice:
>
> COPYRIGHT NOTICE
>
> Index from English Verb Classes And Alternations: A Preliminary
> Investigation, by Beth Levin, published by The University of Chicago
> Press, )
> 1993 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
>
> This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use
> provisions of US copyright law, and it may be archived and
> redistributed in electronic form, provided that this entire notice is
> carried and provided that the University of Chicago Press is notified
> and no fee is charged for access. Archiving, redistribution, or
> republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires
> both the consent of the author and the University of Chicago Press.
>
> This file contains the index from English Verb Classes And
> Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, by Beth Levin, published by
> The University of Chicago Press, copyright ) The University of
> Chicago, 1993. More detailed information on the verb classes and
> alternations referenced by section number in this index is found in
> the book itself.
>
> Any work, published or unpublished, based in whole or in part on the
> use of this index should acknowledge English Verb Classes And
> Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation. The author would appreciate
> being informed of such work or other significant uses of the index.
>
> Beth Levin
> Department of Linguistics
> Northwestern University
> Evanston, IL, USA 60208-4090
> b-levin@nwu.edu
>
> Matthew Bell wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know if Beth Levin's verb classes have been represented
> > electronically somehow, and if so where they may be found?
> >
> > --Matthew Bell, NMSU
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Dragomir R. Radev http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev
> Natural Language Processing Group Columbia University CS Department
> Home: 212-749-9770 Office: 914-784-7899, 212-939-7121

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