Valency : : Theoretical, Descriptive and Cognitive Issues / / ed. by Thomas Herbst, Katrin Götz-Votteler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Behrens, Heike,; Emons, Rudolf,; Fillmore, Charles J.,; Fischer, Klaus,; Görz, Günther,; Götz, Dieter,; Götz-Votteler, Katrin,; Habermann, Mechthild,; Hausser, Roland,; Heid, Ulrich,; Herbst, Thomas,; Ickler, Irene,; Johansson, Stig,; Kabashi, Besim,; Klotz, Michael,; Ludwig, Bernd,; Matthews, Peter,; Mindt, Ilka,; Mittmann, Brigitta,; Noël, Dirk,; Rickheit, Gert,; Roe, Ian,; Schøsler, Lene,; Sichelschmidt, Lorenz,
• HerausgeberIn: Götz-Votteler, Katrin,; Herbst, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 187
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Section 1: Theoretical and descriptive aspects of -- valency -- 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 -- Section 2: Cognitive issues and valency -- phenomena -- Valency and cognition – a notion in -- transition -- Valency grammar in mind -- The acquisition of argument structure -- Section 3: Contrastive aspects of valency -- 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 -- Section 4: Computational aspects of valency -- analysis -- 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? -- Backmatter