A Valency Dictionary of English

A Valency Dictionary of English
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 1008
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ISBN-10 : 9783110892581
ISBN-13 : 3110892588
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Book Synopsis A Valency Dictionary of English by : Thomas Herbst

Download or read book A Valency Dictionary of English written by Thomas Herbst and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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