Language-independent and language-specific properties of semantic description: A case study on verbs of communication

The study focuses on the properties of verb conceptual description in view of their linguistic universality and transferability of conceptual information across languages. Further, we present the semantic class of verbs of communication, the hierarchical organisation of frames and the corresponding frame elements. We consider the most prominent FrameNet frames evoking verbs of communication of higher frequency and make observations on the syntactic realisation of the frame elements in different valence patterns both in English and Bulgarian.