A Valency Dictionary of English
Title | A Valency Dictionary of English PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Herbst |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 1008 |
Release | 2013-02-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110892588 |
This dictionary provides a valency description of English verbs, nouns and adjectives. Each entry contains a comprehensive list of the complementation patterns identified on the basis of the largest corpus of English available at the present time. All examples are taken directly from the COBUILD/Birmingham corpus. The valency description comprises statements about the quantitative valency of the lexical units established, an inventory of their obligatory, contextually optional and purely optional complements as well as systematic information on the semantic and collocational properties of the complements. An outline of the model of valency theory used in this dictionary is provided in the introduction.
A Valency Dictionary of English
Title | A Valency Dictionary of English PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Herbst |
Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton |
Pages | 1014 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
Valency and the English Verb
Title | Valency and the English Verb PDF eBook |
Author | D. J. Allerton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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A Morphosyntactic Valency Dictionary of English Verbs
Title | A Morphosyntactic Valency Dictionary of English Verbs PDF eBook |
Author | László Budai |
Publisher | |
Pages | 569 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789637332661 |
Verb Valency Patterns
Title | Verb Valency Patterns PDF eBook |
Author | Susen Faulhaber |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 3110240718 |
Based on an empirical study of English verbs, the author discusses to what extent complementation is predictable from meaning by examining whether semantically similar verbs also exhibit the same syntactic properties. The significant number of idiosyncrasies presented rigorously challenge approaches that assume meaning to be the determining force in complementation.
Verb Valency Patterns
Title | Verb Valency Patterns PDF eBook |
Author | Susen Faulhaber |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2011-04-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110240785 |
Taking as its point of departure the general assumption that meaning is crucial in accounting for verb complementation, this volume presents the results of an empirical study of verb complementation patterns of semantically similar English verbs. The semantic parallels of the verbs selected are based on their coverage in dictionaries - first and foremost the Valency Dictionary of English (Herbst, Heath, Roe and Götz 2004) - as well as corpus research and native speaker assessments. It is demonstrated that despite obvious similarities in complementation between such verbs, there are still a significant number of syntactic discrepancies which cannot be accounted for on the basis of meaning alone and that semantic factors - such as selection restrictions and aspectual properties - do not sufficiently correlate with the verbs' syntactic properties and consequently do not have sufficient explanatory power. Thus the results rigorously challenge so-called projectionist approaches which assume the position that complementation is determined by semantic properties and thus ought to be predictable on this basis. In the light of a general trend towards placing greater emphasis on semantic aspects, in the fields of construction grammar and cognitive grammar too, the number of idiosyncratic phenomena on the level of single complements as well as whole patterns clearly underlines the importance of storage phenomena as opposed to rule-based generation. As such it stresses the necessity of finding ways to systematically account for item-specific properties of verbs in any grammatical theory of the English language. The book is targeted at all linguists interested in the relationship between semantics and syntax, which is one of the prevalent questions in modern linguistics, also in the field of construction grammar and cognitive grammar. Since the data is presented in a way which is compatible with various theories of complementation, the target group is clearly not restricted to any specific linguistic school. Because of the large amount of item-specific information presented, this book is also a valuable source for grammarians and lexicographers.
Valency
Title | Valency PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Herbst |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2008-09-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110198770 |
In recent years, research on valency has led to important insights into the nature of language. Some of these findings are published in this volume for the first time with up-to-date accounts of language description and new reflections on language, above all for English and German. The volume also presents examples of contrastive analysis, which are of use for all those who deal professionally with these two languages. Furthermore, the articles in the psycholinguistic and computational linguistics section demonstrate the applicability and value of valency theory for these approaches and shed light on a fruitful cooperation between theoretical and descriptive linguistics and applied disciplines. The papers cover the following aspects of valency analysis: (i) theoretical aspects of the valency approach in relation to related theories of complementation (dependency syntax, FrameNet, case roles), (ii) descriptive aspects of valency and complementation, (iii) valency as a concept for the description of cognitive processes in syntactic processing, (iv) contrastive aspects of valency, above all for English and German, and (v) possible computational applications of the valency concept in fields such as automatic syntactic recognition or language processing. The volume combines papers of representatives from different linguistic schools on the topic of complementation. One of the aims is to show how concepts developed for the analysis of one language, in the case of valency often German, can be applied to other languages such as English.