A system of verbal semantic attributes focused on the syntactic correspondence between Japanese and English

Relation-- __ Mental State -- Natnre ACTION Become Cause Enable _ Physicd__ Aclion Mental Start~l{nd---[ Start End Existence Attribute Possession Relative Relation Rclatkm of Cause and Effect . Percepthal State Emofive State Thinking State -- Physical Transfer -- Possessive 'l'rans: Attribute Transtar - Bodily Transfer Resnit Bodily Action Use Connective Action- |h-oducfion __ Extinction- lstrucfion Men Transfer Perceptual Action Erectire Action Thinking Action 4. Result of Application for the Semantic Descriptions of Verbal Patterns We evaluated the coverage of the verbal semantic attributes shown in chapter 3 by examining the verbal semantic attributes for each Japanese to English pair (about 15,000 pairs) in tile Japanese to English transfer pattern dictionaries 3