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Author Herbst, Thomas

Title Valency : Theoretical, Descriptive and Cognitive Issues
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (406 pages)
Series Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 187
Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 187
Contents 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
Summary 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 l
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Subject Dependency grammar.
Cognitive grammar.
Contrastive linguistics.
Computational linguistics.
Semantics.
Semantics
computational linguistics.
semantics.
Cognitive grammar
Computational linguistics
Contrastive linguistics
Dependency grammar
Semantics
Form Electronic book
Author Gtz-Votteler, Katrin
ISBN 9783110198775
3110198770
1282194542
9781282194540