On lexical, semantic and syntactic granularity of Italian verbs, , in Kakoyianni Doa F., ed., Penser le lexique-grammaire : perspectives actuelles, Editions Honoré Champion, Paris, France, 2013, pp. 277-288 (original) (raw)

On lexical, semantic and syntactic granularity of Italian verbs I would like to start with an example. 313 verbs enter in a sentence construction of type N0 V N1 a N2, in which N1 is a complement or an infinitive clause and N0 and N2 are "human" nouns. This sentence construction characterizes the verbs which point to a communicative transfer process between N0 and N2 and belong to class 47 of the Lexico-grammar. The combinatory properties analyzed are 34, the tested sentences are 10,642. Among the analyzed properties there are two interesting ones: