Sebastian Padó

Alessandra Zarcone and Sebastian Pado. "I like work: I can sit and look at it for hours" - Type clash vs. plausibility in covert event recovery. To appear in Proceedings of VERB 2010, Pisa, Italy.

A range of event-subcategorizing verbs can combine with entity-denoting nouns, like "begin the newspaper". The interpretation of such sentences typically involves the recovery of covert events (CE) which are not realized on the surface, as in "begin *reading* the newspaper". We report on an ongoing study that scrutinizes two assumptions made by traditional accounts: (a) that the triggering of CEs can be ascribed to the object's ontological type; and (b), that one or two CEs can be retrieved for each noun. We present preliminary evidence against both assumptions.

@InProceedings{zarcone10:_work
  author =  {Alessandra Zarcone and Sebastian Pad\'o},
  title =   {"I like work: I can sit and look at it for hours" - 
             Type clash vs. plausibility in covert event recovery}
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the VERB 2010 workshop},
  year = 2010,
  address = {Pisa, Italy}
}