Modelling Italian Construction Flexibility with Distributional Semantics: Are Constructions Enough?

English. The present study combines psycholinguistic evidence on Italian valency coercion and a distributional analysis. The paper suggests that distributional properties can provide useful insights on how general abstract constructions influence the resolution of coercion effects. However, complete understanding of the processing and recognition of coercion requires to take into consideration the complex intertwining of lexical verb and abstract constructions. Italiano. Il lavoro unisce uno studio psicolinguistico sul fenomeno della coercion valenziale in Italiano con un’analisi distribuzionale.L’articolo suggerisce che le proprietà distribuzionali forniscano un’utile passaggio per capire l’influenza delle costruzioni alla risoluzione di effetti di coercion. Tuttavia, una piena comprensione del fenomeno richiede di prendere in considerazione la complessa relazione tra verbo e costruzione argomentale.

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