Differently from most of the researches above, our aim has not been to directly translate VerbNet in Italian, but rather to develop a new, autonomous and independent classification for Italian verbs, accounting for Italian the syntactic peculiarities, and stemming from the integration of various resources and theoretical frameworks, and yet compatible with Levin/VerbNet classes (henceforth: L/V) The method that we propose to build an Italian verb classification is rooted in the Construction Grammar paradigm (Goldberg 2006, Hoffmann andTrousdale 2013).Moreover, we adopted a radical distributional 2 approach.
the classes were found by examining corpus-based data and empirical distributions.