Verb Valency Patterns: A Challenge for Semantics-Based Accounts

by Susen Faulhaber

Taking as its point of departure the general assumption that meaning is crucial in accounting for verb complementation, this volume presents the results of an empirical study of verb complementation patterns of semantically similar English verbs. The semantic parallels of the verbs selected are based on their coverage in dictionaries - first and foremost the Valency Dictionary of English (Herbst, Heath, Roe and G tz 2004) - as well as corpus research...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110240718
• ISBN13: 9783110240719
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary