A valency dictionary of English : a corpus-based analysis of the complementation patterns of English verbs, nouns, and adjectives /
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/Bir...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2004.
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Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
40. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- I A brief guide to the Valency Dictionary of English
- 1 The functions of this dictionary
- 1.1 Valency as a problem in language description, foreign language learning and teaching
- 1.2 The corpus basis
- 1.3 Types of information
- 2 The structure of the dictionary
- 3 Complement inventory
- 3.1 Quantitative valency: number of complements
- 3.2 Qualitative valency: Character of complements
- 4 The pattern-and-examples section
- 4.1 Structure
- 4.2 Patterns without pattern specification
- attr. and pred.
- 4.3 Symbols for elements in other valency patterns4.4 Frequency of patterns
- 4.5 Examples
- 5 The note block
- 6 Idiomatic phrasal verbs section
- 7 Final remarks
- II Valency theory and the Valency Dictionary of English
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Valency theory and lexicography
- 3 The basic assumptions of valency theory: complements and adjuncts
- 4 The form of the complements
- 4.1 Complements: phrases and clauses
- 4.2 Prepositional complements
- 4.3 Complex complements: one complement or two?
- 4.4 The category ADV
- 5 Semantic and lexical aspects of complements6 Obligatory and optional complements
- 6.1 Three types of necessity: communication � structure � valency
- 6.2 Obligatory and optional complements
- 6.3 Quantitative valency
- 6.4 Gradience and classificatory problems
- 7 Valency patterns in this dictionary
- 7.1 Coverage of complements and adjuncts
- 7.2 The presentation of the patterns
- 7.3 The idiomatic phrasal verb section
- 8 Information on meaning in this dictionary
- 8.1 The semantic and lexical range of the complements
- 8.2 The description of word meaning9 Further information about this dictionary
- 9.1 Corpus basis
- 9.2 Examples
- 9.3 Frequency
- 9.4 Selection of headwords
- Bibliography
- Dictionary
- Approaches to the dictionary
- Important symbols occurring in this dictionary