Approach (4): Conceptual semantics, - Thematic vs. Action tier, - Psychological/evaluative predicates

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Week 01課程介紹Watch Online
Week 01Introduction of the course
What is a lexicon?
Culture as reflected in the lexicon: 醒、覺
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Week 02- the nature of lexical knowledge
- Ambiguity, polysemy, and vagueness
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Week 03Approach (1): Syntax-semantic interface
Alternation-based approach
- Alternations and classes: Psych verbs, Motion verbs
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Week 04- From Lexical Semantics to Argument Realization:
4 different approaches of event structure representation
- lexical Semantics and syntactic structure: the unaccusative hypothesis
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Week 05Approach (2): Prototype theory
- Thematic Proto-roles and Argument Selection
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Week 06Approach (3): Construction Grammar:
- the interaction between verbs and constructions
- Caused Motion/Resultative construction
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Week 07Lexical rules vs. Constructional approach
- Twistin’ the night away
- Jackendoff and construction grammar
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Week 08Approach (4): Conceptual semantics
- Thematic vs. Action tier
- Psychological/evaluative predicates
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Week 09Approach (5): Frame semantics
- Overview of frame Semantics
- Frame-based lexicon: ‘risk’-verbs
- the role of frame Semantics in construction grammar
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Week 10Approach (6): Cognitive semantics
- Lexicalization patterns
- Event conflation
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Week 11Approach (7): Cognitive grammar
Schema and extension
- Things, (relations) and processes
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Week 12Approach (8): Prototype and metaphor
- The case of English ‘over’
- From cognition to grammar
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Week 13Approach (9): Grammaticalization and semantic change
- Back to the future
- Semantics-pragmatics in grammaticalization
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Week 14Approach (10): Generative Lexicon
- Introduction to generative lexicon
- Qualia structure
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Week 15Approach (11): Corpus-based approach
- Corpus approach to lexico-grammar
Approach (12): Toward an emergent view of lexical semantics
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Week 16- From collocation to Event information: verbs of discussion
- the construction of Mandarin VerbNet
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Week 17- 近義詞: 高興 vs. 快樂
- Beyond lexical Semantics: the pro-verb GAN
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