For example, in an attempt to assess the actual completeness and usefulness of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) entries, Boguraev and Briscoe (1989) found that people assigned a "change of possession" meaning both to verbs that had dative-related subcategorization frames (as indicated in the LDOCE) and to verbs that did not.
an important contribution of the work is the proposed mapping between the thematic assignment properties of the verb classes, and the statistical distributions of their surface syntactic properties.