Conceptual Structure of Stative Predicates with a View to Data in Bulgarian and Russian Cover Image

Концептуална структура на предикати за състояние върху материал на български и руски
Conceptual Structure of Stative Predicates with a View to Data in Bulgarian and Russian

Author(s): Svetlozara Leseva, Ivelina Stoyanova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Syntax, Comparative Linguistics, Computational linguistics, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: conceptual description; FrameNet; WordNet; Bulgarian; Russian
Summary/Abstract: The paper presents our observations on two major groups of stative predicates – Permanent Properties and Relations and True Statives, as well as their corresponding classes. After an overview of the main theoretical works focusing on stative predicates, we turn to their representation in two lexical-semantic resources – WordNet and FrameNet. We analyse the specific features of the conceptual description using FrameNet frames and demonstrate the research principles through the analysis of predicates for intent, will and desire. The analysis employs data from WordNet synsets and their corresponding equivalents in Bulgarian and Russian, while the examples are extracted from a parallel Polish-Bulgarian-Russian corpus.