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 |
ISBN |
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.
Verb Valency - The Dependents of the Verb
Title | Verb Valency - The Dependents of the Verb PDF eBook |
Author | Ilona Sontag |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2008-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3640194314 |
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 1,7, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik ), course: Syntactic Questions, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although the idea of valency is not new in the field of linguistics, it seems to have received relatively little attention up to now. Lucien Tesnière, who became known as the developer of the so called "dependency grammar", was one of the first linguists who described the capacity of a verb to bind a certain number of "actants"1 (cf. Tesnière 1980, 385-386). In his posthumously published book "Eléments de syntaxe structurale"2 (1959) he called this phenomenon "valency". Later on, other linguists adopted his notion, modified and adapted it. One of these linguists is Peter Eisenberg, a German philologist, who wrote some recent works on grammar in which the role of verb valency is often in the center of attention. Because a period of thirty years had passed since Tesnière's first attempt to define the phenomenon of valency in linguistics, Eisenberg's approach is a lot more detailed and includes different criteria for he had the opportunity to contribute his knowledge of other theories which were created after Tesnière's book had been published. This term paper will draw a comparison of two works written by the authors mentioned above with special regard to the words which are dependent on verbs. Since the verb is often in the center of attention when the notion of valency is concerned, the group of the other words which are "governed" by the verb does not seem to be examined in the same way. Furthermore there does not even seem to be a standard term for such words (perhaps except for "arguments" (cf. Meyer 2005, 30), but even the notion of arguments is used in diverse ways), so that I will use the word "dependents" to refer to every possible linguistic element which can be bound by a verb. The main aim of this paper will not only
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.
Valency in Verbs and Verb-related Structures
Title | Valency in Verbs and Verb-related Structures PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Malicka-Kleparska |
Publisher | Sounds ¿ Meaning ¿ Communication |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | 9783631777121 |
The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and synthetic compounds) in a variety of languages (English, Polish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Greek, Hebrew, Ga and Bantu languages). The proposed analyses are couched in lexically and syntactically driven approaches.
German-English Verb Valency
Title | German-English Verb Valency PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Fischer |
Publisher | Gunter Narr Verlag |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Engelsk sprog |
ISBN | 9783823350873 |
Describing Verb Valency
Title | Describing Verb Valency PDF eBook |
Author | Mário Alberto Perini |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2015-09-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 331920985X |
The elaboration of linguistic theories depends on the existence of adequate descriptions of particular languages; otherwise theories will be poorly grounded on empirical data. This book starts from theoretical points of wide acceptance among linguists and goes on to present a descriptive metalanguage, able to express the facts of verb valency, which constitute one of the core areas in linguistic description. Most of the data come from an extensive survey under way of the valency of Portuguese verbs; but the present work’s relevance goes well beyond that, and incorporates a proposal applicable to other European languages, illustrated by the wealth of English examples included in the exposition. Among the topics discussed are the syntactic component of constructions (following here a proposal recently published in Culicover and Jackendoff’s Simpler Syntax); delimitation and definition of semantic roles; the role of linking rules and their relation to prototypes; and the connection between linguistic expressions and cognitive units such as frames and schemata. The result is a notational system flexible and robust enough to describe all aspects of verb valency.