Describing Verb Valency: Practical and Theoretical Issues

By Mario Alberto Perini and Mario A. Perini

Book Overview

Chapter 1 Constructions, Diatheses, Valency.- Chapter 2 Syntactic Functions.- Chapter 3 Semantic Roles in Grammatical Description.- Chapter 4 Delimitation and Definition.- Chapter 5 Core CSRs.- Chapter 6 Coding Semantic Relations.- Chapter 7 Prepositions, Transparency, and Prototypes.- Chapter 8 Hierarchies and Human Subjects.- Chapter 9 Direct Schema Connections.- Chapter 10 Other Aspects of the Role-coding Process.- Chapter 11 Paring Diatheses Down.- Chapter 12 Summary.- Appendix 1 Some Verbs and their Valencies.- Appendix 2 The FrameNet Project (with Larissa Cir?aco).- Appendix 3 The ADESSE Database.- Appendix 4 The Erlangen Valency Patternbank.- Appendix 5 Other Databases and Valency Dictionaries.- Appendix 6 Why the Passive Construction is a Diathesis of ser.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319370499
• ISBN13: 9783319370491
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"