This dictionary provides a valency description of English verbs, nouns and adjectives. Each entry contains a comprehensive list of the complementation patterns
Based on an empirical study of English verbs, the author discusses to what extent complementation is predictable from meaning by examining whether semantically
The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and synthetic compounds) in a variet
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 firs