Frame semantics and verbs of contact

The article provides a semantic description of a group of verbs from WordNet with
the semantic primitive ‘verbs of contact‘, which belong to the common vocabulary
of Bulgarian. We present the result of their annotation with conceptual frames
using the information for the semantic hierarchy from BulNet (Koeva 2021b) or
WordNet and the semantic frames from FrameNet (Fillmore 1982, Fillmore et al.
1998) – original or adapted. The predicates of contact are divided into the main
classes: Verbs of physical contact via movement and Verbs of physical contact
in state. Using information from the hierarchical structure of WordNet, semantic
frames from FrameNet and based on the observations on the selective features and
syntactic realisation of the concrete meaning, subtypes of contact verbs are offered.