| Valency: Theoretical, Descriptive and Cognitive Issues Contributor(s): Herbst, Thomas (Editor), Götz-Votteler, Katrin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110195739 ISBN-13: 9783110195736 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $285.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: 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 first time with up-to-date accounts of language description and new reflections on language, above all for English and German. The volume also presents examples of contrastive analysis, which are of use for all those who deal professionally with these two languages. Furthermore, the articles in the psycholinguistic and computational linguistics section demonstrate the applicability and value of valency theory for these approaches and shed light on a fruitful cooperation between theoretical and descriptive linguistics and applied disciplines. The papers cover the following aspects of valency analysis: (i) theoretical aspects of the valency approach in relation to related theories of complementation (dependency syntax, FrameNet, case roles), (ii) descriptive aspects of valency and complementation, (iii) valency as a concept for the description of cognitive processes in syntactic processing, (iv) contrastive aspects of valency, above all for English and German, and (v) possible computational applications of the valency concept in fields such as automatic syntactic recognition or language processing. The volume combines papers of representatives from different linguistic schools on the topic of complementation. One of the aims is to show how concepts developed for the analysis of one language, in the case of valency often German, can be applied to other languages such as English. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Syntax - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Language Arts & Disciplines | Spelling & Vocabulary |
| Dewey: 415 |
| LCCN: 2007031827 |
| Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm] |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.64 lbs) 405 pages |
