Argument realisation of experience processes: a synchronic and diachronic account. KU Leuven
Formal and Computational Linguistics (ComForT), Leuven, Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven
In the sentence the dog ate my homework the verb ate has two arguments: the dog and my homework. The way these arguments are syntactically realised here as a subject and a direct object is known in syntactic theory as argument realisation. This research proposal is about the argument realisation of verbs that express an experience process, like frighten, amaze or irritate. The meaning of such verbs makes it difficult to fit them into a ...