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.

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Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Year

2008

ISBN

9783110198775

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Linguistics

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Frontmatter
Contents
The scope of valency in grammar
Valency complements or valency patterns?
Describing semantic valency
The status of valency patterns
Verb valency patterns, constructions and grammaticalization
Aspects of a diachronic valency syntax of German
The valency of experiential and evaluative adjectives
Valency rules? The case of verbs with propositional complements
Valency issues in FrameNet
Valency and cognition – a notion in transition
Valency grammar in mind
The acquisition of argument structure
Valency and the errors of learners of English and German
Temporary ambiguity of German and English term complements
Sentence patterns and perspective in English and German
Contrasting valency in English and German
Valency in a contrastive perspective: Structure and use
Valency and automatic syntactic and semantic analysis
Handling valency and coordination in Database Semantics
Pronominal clitics and valency in Albanian: A computational linguistics perspective and modelling within the LAG-Framework
The practical use of valencies in the Erlangen speech dialogue system CONALD
Valency data for Natural Language Processing: What can the Valency Dictionary of English provide?
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