Case Grammar: Development of the Matrix Model (1970-1978)

Woytak, Lidia; Cook, Walter A.

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“…Afterward, a second level of coding was performed to classify categorically the types of verbs that were repeated. The classification was appropriated from Cook's (1979) approach which classifies verbs according to their semantic nature: stative, action, and process. Stative verbs "describe a noncausal relation between persons or things, or a state or property of a person or thing" such as "to be, appear, mean, can."…”

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“…Verbs have rarely been a unit of close empirical analysis. The only systematic body of psychotherapy research conducted in this area is based on Cook's (1979) approach to the study of language who placed special emphasis on the use of verb phrases as grammatic and semantic anchors of speech. Pepinsky (1985), interested in the empirical application of Cook's approach, developed the Computer-Assisted Language Analysis System (CALAS) which used verb phrase variables for the purpose of analyzing interactive dialogue and this has been applied to psychotherapy transcripts.…”

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“…In particular, to shed further light on the contradictory findings regarding affective processes found by Jones and Windholz (1990) and Bucci (1997b), repeated verbs were coded according to their affective and cognitive nature, and then their frequencies were compared across the years. For this purpose, verbs were organized by Cook's (1979) procedure as described before (i.e., stative, action, process, affective, and cognitive). This was chosen because it is the only systematic empirical methodology specifically on affective and cognitive processes underlying verb usage that has previously been applied to psychotherapy research.…”

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An empirical study of verb use as indicator of emotional access in therapeutic discourse.

Halfon¹,

Fişek²,

Çavdar³

2017

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Verbs are the primary linguistic vehicles connecting one to his or her affective bodily core. Previous studies have shown that an increase in patient's verb repetitions in psychoanalysis is indicative of sensory affective arousal that cannot be narrated in words. If the treatment is operating effectively, the patient can use the therapeutic medium to transform the raw affect into a coherent emotional narrative. Using this premise, this study empirically investigated the effectiveness of a psychoanalytic treatment, whose success has been controversial in the past. Using a single-case design with primarily quantitative linguistic methods, measures of verb repetitions, affect dictionaries, and a computerized measure of Referential Activity (a measure of imagistic emotional language) were applied to verbatim recordings of 30 psychoanalytic sessions representing different years of treatment. Results showed that the verb repetition measure was able to differentiate significantly the sessions in terms of level of affective arousal, and there was a significant decrease in mean verb repetitions across the year. Further quantitative and clinical analyses supported that an increase in the repetition of action verbs and affective verbs was associated with intense affective sensory arousal that disrupts the patient's ability to think where as an increase in stative verb repetitions helped the patient organize a meaningful emotional narrative. Results suggest that a systematic study of verbs can reveal crucial information about patient's affective states and provide pointers for the clinicians in terms the kinds of interventions needed according to the patient's linguistic choices.

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An empirical study of verb use as indicator of emotional access in therapeutic discourse.

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Fişek²,

Çavdar³

2017

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…In contrast to Levin's alternations-guided approach, several other classification models for verbs are driven by semantic, rather than syntactic-semantic, considerations. Thematic roles (e.g., Experiencer, Patient, Agent) are used as classification criteria in the works falling within the scope of Case Grammar (Chafe 1970, Cook 1979, Longacre 1976) and Role and Reference Grammar (Foley & Van Valin 1984, Van Valin 1993. In the thematic-relations-oriented classification, verb groupings emerge based on patterns of cooccurrence with sets of semantic roles assumed by their arguments.…”

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Verb Classification Across Languages

Majewska

Korhonen

2023

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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Recent developments in language modeling have enabled large text encoders to derive a wealth of linguistic information from raw text corpora without supervision. Their success across natural language processing (NLP) tasks has called into question the role of man-made computational resources, such as verb lexicons, in supporting modern NLP. Still, probing analyses have concurrently exposed the limitations of the knowledge possessed by the large neural architectures, revealing them to be clever task solvers rather than self-taught linguists. Can human-designed lexical resources still help fill their knowledge gaps? Focusing on verb classification, we discuss approaches to generating verb classes multilingually and weigh the relative benefits of undertaking expensive lexicographic work and outsourcing the task to untrained native speakers. Then, we consider the evidence for the utility of augmenting pretrained language models with external verb knowledge and ponder the ways in which human expertise can continue to benefit multilingual NLP. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Linguistics, Volume 9 is January 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Case Grammar: Development of the Matrix Model (1970-1978)

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An empirical study of verb use as indicator of emotional access in therapeutic discourse.

An empirical study of verb use as indicator of emotional access in therapeutic discourse.

Verb Classification Across Languages

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