A guest post by Richard Littauer
I was asked by Zoltan a long time ago to write something for this post, and have so far neglected to come up with anything. I'm about to start a two year Computational Linguistics masters at the University of Saarbrücken, so I figure it is about time I do this, before I am too bogged down to do anything. So, here is some original research I did a couple of years ago for a Lexical Semantics assignment at the University of Edinburgh, while I was in my undergraduate, being taught by Nikolas Gisbourne. His research in this area is largely within the framework of Word Grammar, and he specialises in the event structure of perception verbs (which is the title of his 2010 book released with OUP. I had wanted to take his word grammar and apply it some sort of binary system, but my thoughts quickly went in a different direction. I cover a lot of ground responding to Rappaport Hovav and Levin's work in this are, as well as Pustejovsky, mostly as I didn't want to risk quoting Gisbourne wrong at the time. Here is that different direction, then - it's very rough, and I had no computational background at the time, so it might be a bit out there. Hopefully, I'll get some feedback on this, though, as I think it's interesting and might be an interesting route to pursue. (NB: It's mostly edited from a longer essay, if it sound a bit formal.)
