Describing Verb Valency Practical and Theoretical Issues /

• Main Author: Perini, Mário Alberto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Applied linguistics.; Grammar.; Romance languages.; Semantics.; Syntax.; Applied Linguistics.; Romance Languages.

The elaboration of linguistic theories depends on the existence of adequate descriptions of particular languages; otherwise theories will be poorly grounded on empirical data. This book starts from theoretical points of wide acceptance among linguists and goes on to present a descriptive metalanguag...

Table of Contents:

• 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 Ciríaco)
• 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.  .