用可解释维度验证动作主体性影响不及物动词句式
Interpretable dimensions support an effect of agentivity and telicity on split intransitivity
- 通过极性词种子计算可解释语义维度
- 证实主体性与趋向性确实影响动词句式分布
- 适合关注语义量化与语言认知的研究者
不及物动词分为两类：自发类（unergative）和非自主类（unaccusative）。长期以来认为，描述有主体动作的动词更倾向使用自发类句式，描述有目标事件的动词则更倾向使用非自主类句式。然而，Kim 等人（2024）发现人类对主体性和趋向性的评分无法有效预测不及物动词的句法行为。本文重新考察该问题，采用从主体性与趋向性极性词种子中计算出的可解释维度。结果支持了自发类/非自主类句式与主体性/趋向性之间的关联，并表明将可解释维度与人类判断结合，能为难以通过评分任务评估的语义属性提供有力证据。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Intransitive verbs fall into two different syntactic classes, unergatives and unaccusatives. It has long been argued that verbs describing an agentive action are more likely to appear in an unergative syntax, and those describing a telic event to appear in an unaccusative syntax. However, recent work by Kim et al. (2024) found that human ratings for agentivity and telicity were a poor predictor of the syntactic behavior of intransitives. Here we revisit this question using interpretable dimensions, computed from seed words on opposite poles of the agentive and telic scales. Our findings support the link between unergativity/unaccusativity and agentivity/telicity, and demonstrate that using interpretable dimensions in conjunction with human judgments can offer valuable evidence for semantic properties that are not easily evaluated in rating tasks.
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