Valency and the errors of learners of English and German

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Section 1: Theoretical and descriptive aspects of valency
4. The scope of valency in grammar 3
5. Valency complements or valency patterns? 15
6. Describing semantic valency 37
7. The status of valency patterns 51
8. Verb valency patterns, constructions and grammaticalization 67
9. Aspects of a diachronic valency syntax of German 85
10. The valency of experiential and evaluative adjectives 101
11. Valency rules? The case of verbs with propositional complements 117
12. Valency issues in FrameNet 129
13. Section 2: Cognitive issues and valency phenomena
14. Valency and cognition – a notion in transition 163
15. Valency grammar in mind 183
16. The acquisition of argument structure 193
17. Section 3: Contrastive aspects of valency
18. Valency and the errors of learners of English and German 217
19. Temporary ambiguity of German and English term complements 229
20. Sentence patterns and perspective in English and German 253
21. Contrasting valency in English and German 271
22. Valency in a contrastive perspective: Structure and use 287
23. Section 4: Computational aspects of valency analysis
24. Valency and automatic syntactic and semantic analysis 309
25. Handling valency and coordination in Database Semantics 321
26. Pronominal clitics and valency in Albanian: A computational linguistics perspective and modelling within the LAG-Framework 339
27. The practical use of valencies in the Erlangen speech dialogue system CONALD 353
28. Valency data for Natural Language Processing: What can the Valency Dictionary of English provide? 365
29. Backmatter 383