... an object, always takes an agent, always has a pa- tient, and always has the patient serving as ob- ject. The learner will also assume that em break never takes a location, a dative, etc. ... eral area of WIPE, CLEAR and SPRAY/LOAD, but the optional locative, and the fact that the theme can be marked with em with select for the class of SPRAY/LOAD, verbs of physical contact that ... is actually a combination of this weak form of semantic bootstrapping with what is called em syntactic bootstrapping, the notion that syntactic frames alone offer enough information to classify...