... alter- nations and their semantic effects (Resnik, 1996; Tenny, 1994), and selecting tense and lexical items for natural language gen- eration ((Dorr and Olsen, 1996; Klavans and Chodorow, ... se- mantic effects (Resnik, 1996; Tenny, 1994), and for selecting tense and lexical items for natural language generation ((Dorr and Olsen. 1996: Klavans and Chodorow, 1992), cf. (Slobin and ... and semantic content. Semantic structure is built up from linguistically relevant and univer- sally accessible elements of verb meaning. Bor- rowing from Jackendoff (1990), we assume seman- tic...