Noun valency
by Spevak, Olga
This article has two objectives. The first is to present an account of valency nouns in Latin. Lyons' typology (1977) envisaging three orders of entities is useful for predicting the number and type of complements used with various nouns. Expansions of all the categories are distinguished: concrete entities, relational nouns, agent nouns, verbal nouns, and nouns expressing qualities. Furthermore, Latin shows interesting phenomena closely related to noun valency, namely nominalization of verbal …
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- Full title :Noun valency / edited by Olga Spevak, University of Toulouse 2.
Summary
This article has two objectives. The first is to present an account of valency nouns in Latin. Lyons' typology (1977) envisaging three orders of entities is useful for predicting the number and type of complements used with various nouns. Expansions of all the categories are distinguished: concrete entities, relational nouns, agent nouns, verbal nouns, and nouns expressing qualities. Furthermore, Latin shows interesting phenomena closely related to noun valency, namely nominalization of verbal notions in Early Latin and the construction of the dominant participle. The second objective is to ex.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027269980, 902726998X, 1306841917, 9781306841917
- oclc:ocn881472694
- LC Classification:P271
- Dewey Decimal:415/.5
Table of Contents
Noun Valency; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of content; Abbreviations; Editor's foreword; References; Contributors; Contribution of valency to the analysis of language ; 1. Why valency? ; 2. What is valency about? ; 3. The deletion/absence problem ; 4. Labeling of inner participants ; 5. Conclusions on verbal valency as a source for the examination of valency of nouns ; 6. Valency of nouns ; 6.1 Valency of deverbal nouns ; 6.1.1 Deverbal nouns derived by syntactic derivation ; 6.1.2 Deverbal nouns derived by lexical derivation ; 6.2 Primary nouns.
6.3 Linguistic meaning or cognitive content? 6.4 Conclusions on noun valency ; 7. Future perspectives for studies of noun valency ; Appendix 1. Inner participants of verbs in PDT 2.0 ; Appendix 2. Inner participants of nouns (with functions corresponding the IP of verbs) in PDT 2.0 ; Special valency behavior of Czech deverbal nouns ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Aims and objectives ; 1.2 Methods ; 1.3 General framework of Functional Generative Description ; 1.4 Treatment of deverbal nouns in Czech valency lexicons ; 1.5 Outline ; 2. General principles determining the surface forms of participants.
3. Typical valency behavior …
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