(ii) In a second step, we refine and extend the semantic characterization of the verb classes by translating it to English and linking it to existing semantic classes in lexical resources at the word sense level: we consider the coarse semantic fields in the German wordnet GermaNet (Kunze and Lemnitzer, 2002), the verb classes in the English lexicon VerbNet (Kipper et al., 2008), and the semantic frames in the English lexicon FrameNet (Baker et al., 1998).
we obtain a detailed semantic characterization of the verb classes, as well as insights into the validity of Levin's theory across the related languages German and English.