Advances in Frame Semantics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Advances in Frame Semantics -- References -- Verbs of visual perception in Italian FrameNet -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 2.1 Verbs of visual perception -- 2.2 The Italian FrameNet methodology -- 2.3 Sentence sampling -- 2.3.1 Preliminary scanning -- 2.3.2 Analyzing syntactic frame distribution -- 2.3.3 Analyzing filler distribution -- 2.4 Encoding and annotation -- 3. Analysis of verbs of visual perception -- 3.1 Assigning frames to LUs -- 3.2 Frame Element structure -- 3.3 Splitting Perception_active into two subframes -- 4. Conclusions -- 4.1 Results -- 4.2 Further developments: A distributional approach to Frame Semantics -- References -- Semantic annotation of Italian legal texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related work -- 2.1 FrameNet-based semantic annotation of domain-specific corpora -- 2.2 Semantic annotation of legal text corpora -- 3. Starting points -- 3.1 The Italian Environmental legal corpus -- 3.2 Issues in legal language description -- 3.3 Issues of Legal Knowledge Representation -- 4. Annotation methodology -- 4.1 The syntactic level of annotation -- 4.2 Lexicographic or full-text annotation? -- 4.3 Domain-specific customization issues -- 5. First results of pilot annotation trial -- 6. Conclusion and future developments -- References -- Frames and the experiential basis of the Moving Time metaphor -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Temporal concepts -- 1.2 The conceptual metaphor theory of Lakoff & Johnson (1980) -- 1.3 Experiential basis -- 1.3.1 Experiential basis and frames -- 2. The experiential basis of the Moving Ego metaphor -- 3. The experiential basis of the Moving Time metaphor -- 3.1 An apparent paradox -- 3.1.1 The solution to the apparent paradox -- 3.1.2 Another apparent problem.

3.2 Expectation of arrival at ego's location -- 3.2.1 Other submappings and deictic structure -- 3.2.2 Application to Moving Ego -- 4. Summary and conclusions -- References -- FrameNet as a resource for paraphrase research -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Frames and frame elements -- 3. Features of the FrameNet database relevant to paraphrase research -- 4. Paraphrase by intersubstitutability of synonymous expressions -- 5. Frame relations -- 5.1 Paraphrase by inheritance -- 5.2 Paraphrase by perspective alternations -- 5.3 Paraphrase by isolating causation -- 5.4 Paraphrase by isolating inchoation -- 6. Paraphrase using grammatical information available in FrameNet -- 6.1 Support constructions -- 6.2 Valence choice by phrase type -- 6.3 Voice alternation -- 6.4 Paraphrase by complement type alternations -- 6.5 Paraphrase by ditransitive alternations -- 6.6 Paraphrase by reciprocal alternation -- 7. Constructions -- 7.1 Paraphrase by licensed omission -- 7.2 Extra-thematic adjunction -- 8. Negatively-defined antonym -- 8.1 Symmetric antonymy -- 8.2 Asymmetric antonymy -- 9. Conclusions -- References -- A frame-based approach to connectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Frame semantics and FrameNet -- 2.1 Frame semantics -- 2.2 FrameNet -- 2.3 Connectives in FrameNet -- 3. Frame valence -- 3.1 Definition of frame valence -- 3.2 Generalization of frame valence -- 3.3 Grammatical aspects -- 3.4 Summary -- 4. A statistical approach to the meanings of while -- 4.1 Data and methodology -- 4.2 Results -- 4.3 Correspondence analysis -- 5. Whereas as a frame connector -- 5.1 Cases where the same frame is evoked -- 5.2 Cases where different frames are evoked -- 5.3 Omissions -- 5.4 Discussion: Contrast and frames -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Interactional frames and grammatical descriptions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Japanese NMCs - preliminaries.

3. Integrating information in interactional frames -- 3.1 Social relation and context -- 3.2 Purpose of discourse and compression of information -- 3.2.1 Polysemous head nouns and 'information compression' -- 3.2.2 Other NMCs evoking rich cognitive frames -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Beyond the sentence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Construction grammar, frame semantics and the communicative situation -- 3. Grammatical structures are grounded in interaction: Evidence from grammar learning -- 4. Spoken language phenomena as constructions: Evidence from turn-initial pragmatic markers -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.