LINGUIST List 13.1782

Tue Jun 25 2002

Qs: Semantic Role Lexicon/ Eng, British Eng Survey

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  • Brian Murphy, semantic role lexicon for English verbs
  • Niloufar Yarmohammadi, British Speakers of English are needed as Subjects

    Message 1: semantic role lexicon for English verbs

     Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 02:22:11 +0000
    From: Brian Murphy <Brian.Murphycs.tcd.ie>
    Subject: semantic role lexicon for English verbs


    Dear Linguists

    Does anyone know of a publicly available lexicon of English verbal argument structure, including the semantic (aka thematic aka theta) roles for each argument? I'm using COMLEX for the syntax of argument structure, but have been unable to find anything similar for semantics.

    Regards, Brian

    Brian Murphy Trinity College Dublin

    Message 2: British Speakers of English are needed as Subjects

     Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 04:36:24 +0000
    From: Niloufar Yarmohammadi <nyarmohammadiyahoo.com>
    Subject: British Speakers of English are needed as Subjects


    Dear British Community,

    In order to carry out a research for my Ph.D. dissertation on a cross-cultural study of 2 speech acts on Persian and English, I desperately need 30 male and 30 female subjects who would be kind enough to fill out a 24 item open-ended questionnaire which should not take more than half an hour. I cannot possibly go to an English-speaking country and the person supposed to help me has failed. I sincerely appreciate your kind participation in this terrible predicament.

    Yours truly, Niloufar Yarmohammadi

    Subject-Language: English; Code: ENG