Open jakpra opened 5 years ago
Are there paraphrases to support the notion that 'follow' is a light verb? The paraphrases I can think of involve comparatives ("My trade is the same as my father's") and augmentative constructions ("My father's trade is X, and so is mine"; "My trade is X, which is also my father's").
As you say, the following presumably happens at a different place and time than the original trade, so it doesn't seem to fit the mold for secondary verbs. It's not merely aspectual, but involves some notion of imitation. In "I imitated the cat" and "I imitated the cat's meowing", the imitation event seems pretty well distinct from what the cat does, even if we may infer from the meaning of 'imitate' that it also involves meowing.
Thus I like (1a) or (1b).
There's a separate question of whether annotators could reliably identify "my work/trade/career/..." as scene-evoking, given that it doesn't specify any particular manner of working.
I think 1b. 1 for similar reasons as Nathan pointed out (the separate events). 1b is better than 1a since my father is a participant in the trade event. Btw, if there's one thing the Dagstuhl seminar taught me is that we need an event-event relation ontology. I'll fwd one to you (starting point)
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:34 AM Nathan Schneider notifications@github.com wrote:
Are there paraphrases to support the notion that 'follow' is a light verb? The paraphrases I can think of involve comparatives ("My trade is the same as my father's") and augmentative constructions ("My father's trade is X, and so is mine"; "My trade is X, which is also my father's").
As you say, the following presumably happens at a different place and time than the original trade, so it doesn't seem to fit the mold for secondary verbs. It's not merely aspectual, but involves some notion of imitation. In "I imitated the cat" and "I imitated the cat's meowing", the imitation event seems pretty well distinct from what the cat does, even if we may infer from the meaning of 'imitate' that it also involves meowing.
Thus I like (1a) or (1b).
There's a separate question of whether annotators could reliably identify "my work/trade/career/..." as scene-evoking, given that it doesn't specify any particular manner of working.
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For the sentence
I follow my father 's trade
, I can see the following analyses:1a) -
follow
is main predicate,father
is Elaborator with remote edge I_A follow_P [ [ [ my_A father_S ]_A 's_R (trade)_P ]_E trade_C ]_A1b) -
follow
is main predicate,father
is participant I_A follow_P [ [ my_A father_S 's_R ]_A trade_P ]_A2) -
trade
is main predicate,follow
is secondary, licensing the additional participantmy father
I_A follow_D [ my_A father_S 's_R ]_A trade_PI like this the most, even though it fails to express the diachronicity of the
father
's andmy
trading
.3) -
follow trade
is LVC and main predicate I_A [ follow_F trade_C ]_P ...What to do with
my father
in this case? Participant? Or parallel scene with remote edge to(follow) trade
?