In linguistics the term diathesis alternation refers to the fact that verbs can be used in different subcategorization frames where they slightly change their semantic meaning. In syntactic linguistic theory the subcategorization frame of a Word is the number and types of syntactic arguments that it co-occurs with (i It is a hard problem for theoretical linguistics how to encode constraints on the diathesis alternation of a specific verb to a lexicon. Theoretical linguistics is the branch of Linguistics that is most concerned with developing models of linguistic knowledge In Linguistics, the lexicon (from Greek Λεξικόν of a language is its Vocabulary, including its words and expressions It is also claimed that the manner in which verbs undergo diathesis alternation can be used to identify the semantic class they belong to e. A semantic class contains words that share a Semantic property. g in a machine learning task. Machine learning is a subfield of Artificial intelligence that is concerned with the design and development of Algorithms and techniques that allow computers to "learn"
Examples
- Fred ate the pizza vs. Fred ate
- Mary broke the window vs. The window broke