Valency: Theoretical, Descriptive and Cognitive Issues (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs): 187 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 187) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110195739 ISBN 13: 9783110195736

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

"Valency - Theoretical, Descriptive and Cognitive Issues" represents a collection of articles which focus on the issue of complementation within different theoretical frameworks. The questions addressed range from discussions about the appropriate treatment of valency in syntactic theory to particular descriptive issues, contrastive studies and cognitive aspects such as the role of valency in language acquisition.

About the Author:

Thomas Herbst and Katrin Goetz-Votteler, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany.

About this edition

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3110195739
• ISBN 13: 9783110195736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Herbst Thomas, Götz-Votteler Katrin