The semantics of verbs

Conclusion for chapter II.
Verbs vary by type, and each type is determined by the kinds of words that accompany it and the relationship those words have with the verb itself. Classified by the number of their valency arguments, usually three basic types are distinguished: intransitives, transitives, ditransitives and double transitive verbs. Some verbs have special grammatical uses and hence complements, such as copular verbs (i.e., be); the verb "do" used for do-support in questioning and negation, and tense or aspect auxiliaries, e.g., "be", "have" or "can". In addition, verbs can be nonfinite, namely, not inflected for tense, and have various special forms such as infinitives, participles or gerunds.

Conclusion
Although verb classes are a useful device for studying the semantic organization of the verb lexicon, it is necessary to look beyond them to understand the nature of verb meaning. At the time of writing this paper, the ADESSE project contains a provisional semantic classification of about 1700 verb senses, and an index of semantic role for each argument of about 4000 syntactic-semantic schemas, which correspond to 6 Nevertheless, FrameNet has frames at different levels of schematicity. More schematic frames, inherited or used by more specific ones, are most similar to ADESSE classes and subclasses. In fact, FrameNet I grouped specific frames into semantic ‘domains’. more than 50000 clauses of the corpus. There is a lot of work to be done, but we aim to achieve a useful database for descriptive studies of the interaction between verbs and constructions in Spanish. So that we can obtain, for example, the diathesis alternations for any verb, the syntactic realizations of a participant role, or the syntactic constructions for a semantic domain (and vice versa). In linguistics, a semantic field is a set of words grouped semantically (by meaning) that refers to a specific subject. The term is also used in anthropology, computational semiotics, and technical exegesis.