A Valency Dictionary of English
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A Valency Dictionary of English

A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Complementation Patterns of English Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives

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A Valency Dictionary of English

A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Complementation Patterns of English Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783110188271
eBook ISBN
9783110892581
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. I A brief guide to the Valency Dictionary of English
  2. 1 The functions of this dictionary
  3. 1.1 Valency as a problem in language description, foreign language learning and teaching
  4. 1.2 The corpus basis
  5. 1.3 Types of information
  6. 2 The structure of the dictionary
  7. 3 Complement inventory
  8. 3.1 Quantitative valency: number of complements
  9. 3.2 Qualitative valency: Character of complements
  10. 4 The pattern-and-examples section
  11. 4.1 Structure
  12. 4.2 Patterns without pattern specification - attr. and pred.
  13. 4.3 Symbols for elements in other valency patterns
  14. 4.4 Frequency of patterns
  15. 4.5 Examples
  16. 5 The note block
  17. 6 Idiomatic phrasal verbs section
  18. 7 Final remarks
  19. II Valency theory and the Valency Dictionary of English
  20. 1 Introduction
  21. 2 Valency theory and lexicography
  22. 3 The basic assumptions of valency theory: complements and adjuncts
  23. 4 The form of the complements
  24. 4.1 Complements: phrases and clauses
  25. 4.2 Prepositional complements
  26. 4.3 Complex complements: one complement or two?
  27. 4.4 The category ADV
  28. 5 Semantic and lexical aspects of complements
  29. 6 Obligatory and optional complements
  30. 6.1 Three types of necessity: communication – structure – valency
  31. 6.2 Obligatory and optional complements
  32. 6.3 Quantitative valency
  33. 6.4 Gradience and classificatory problems
  34. 7 Valency patterns in this dictionary
  35. 7.1 Coverage of complements and adjuncts
  36. 7.2 The presentation of the patterns
  37. 7.3 The idiomatic phrasal verb section
  38. 8 Information on meaning in this dictionary
  39. 8.1 The semantic and lexical range of the complements
  40. 8.2 The description of word meaning
  41. 9 Further information about this dictionary
  42. 9.1 Corpus basis
  43. 9.2 Examples
  44. 9.3 Frequency
  45. 9.4 Selection of headwords
  46. Bibliography
  47. Dictionary
  48. Approaches to the dictionary
  49. Important symbols occurring in this dictionary