Valency

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.

1;Frontmatter;1 2;Contents;9 3;The scope of valency in grammar;15 4;Valency complements or valency patterns?;27 5;Describing semantic valency;49 6;The status of valency patterns;63 7;Verb valency patterns, constructions and grammaticalization;79 8;Aspects of a diachronic valency syntax of German;97 9;The valency of experiential and evaluative adjectives;113 10;Valency rules? The case of verbs with propositional complements;129 11;Valency issues in FrameNet;141 12;Valency and cognition a notion in transition;175 13;Valency grammar in mind;195 14;The acquisition of argument structure;205 15;Valency and the errors of learners of English and German;229 16;Temporary ambiguity of German and English term complements;241 17;Sentence patterns and perspective in English and German;265 18;Contrasting valency in English and German;283 19;Valency in a contrastive perspective: Structure and use;299 20;Valency and automatic syntactic and semantic analysis;321 21;Handling valency and coordination in Database Semantics;333 22;Pronominal clitics and valency in Albanian: A computational linguistics perspective and modelling within the LAG-Framework;351 23;The practical use of valencies in the Erlangen speech dialogue system CONALD;365 24;Valency data for Natural Language Processing: What can the Valency Dictionary of English provide?;377 25;Backmatter;395