%0 Conference Proceedings %T Italian VerbNet: A Construction-based Approach to Italian Verb Classification %A Busso, Lucia %A Lenci, Alessandro %Y Calzolari, Nicoletta %Y Choukri, Khalid %Y Declerck, Thierry %Y Goggi, Sara %Y Grobelnik, Marko %Y Maegaard, Bente %Y Mariani, Joseph %Y Mazo, Helene %Y Moreno, Asuncion %Y Odijk, Jan %Y Piperidis, Stelios %S Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16) %D 2016 %8 May %I European Language Resources Association (ELRA) %C Portorož, Slovenia %F busso-lenci-2016-italian %X This paper proposes a new method for Italian verb classification -and a preliminary example of resulting classes- inspired by Levin (1993) and VerbNet (Kipper-Schuler, 2005), yet partially independent from these resources; we achieved such a result by integrating Levin and VerbNet’s models of classification with other theoretic frameworks and resources. The classification is rooted in the constructionist framework (Goldberg, 1995; 2006) and is distribution-based. It is also semantically characterized by a link to FrameNet’ssemanticframesto represent the event expressed by a class. However, the new Italian classes maintain the hierarchic “tree” structure and monotonic nature of VerbNet’s classes, and, where possible, the original names (e.g.: Verbs of Killing, Verbs of Putting, etc.). We therefore propose here a taxonomy compatible with VerbNet but at the same time adapted to Italian syntax and semantics. It also addresses a number of problems intrinsic to the original classifications, such as the role of argument alternations, here regarded simply as epiphenomena, consistently with the constructionist approach. %U https://aclanthology.org/L16-1419 %P 2633-2642