Il volume è strutturato in due parti: la prima, di semantica e linguistica computazionale, ha
come argomento l'ontologia interlinguistica dell'azione IMAGACT (capitoli 1, 2 e 3); la …

Action verbs bear the basic information that should be interpreted in order to make sense of
a sentence. Especially in speech, they are the most frequent structuring elements of the …

Action verbs are the less predictable linguistic type for bilingual dictionaries and they cause
major problems for MT technologies that are immediately evident to the user. This is not only …

Cross-linguistic research has brought extensive evidence on how languages differ in their
categorization of actions and events, pointing out the differences in the semantic categories …

Embodiment plays an essential role in both concrete and abstract semantic representations.
Our perceptual and motor system does not only impact on the way we physically interact …

This paper presents the so-called Endo-and Exocentric Verb Typology advanced by the
Danish research group TYPOlex. The typology is partly based on Talmy's lexicalization …

Abstract The Word in Context task has been addressed here on the basis of a simple
intuition: if the same lemma has different senses in two different contexts, it tends to be …

Actions are productive concepts, but they are both linguistically and cognitively
underdetermined: what defines an action in the event continuum is still an open question …

Abstract In South-Asian languages such as Hindi and Urdu, action verbs having compound
constructions and serial verbs constructions pose serious problems for natural language …

Over the past recent years, different works connected over the idea that language, cognition,
and bodily experience must be considered as inextricably intertwined areas of research …