TY - BOOK ID - 7616194 TI - Describing Verb Valency : Practical and Theoretical Issues PY - 2015 SN - 9783319209845 9783319209869 9783319370491 3319209841 331920985X PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Grammar KW - Applied linguistics. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general. KW - Romance languages. KW - Semantics. KW - Applied Linguistics. KW - Grammar. KW - Romance Languages. KW - Syntax. KW - Neo-Latin languages KW - Italic languages and dialects KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax KW - Syntax UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7616194 AB - 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 metalanguage, able to express the facts of verb valency, which constitute one of the core areas in linguistic description. Most of the data come from an extensive survey under way of the valency of Portuguese verbs; but the present work’s relevance goes well beyond that, and incorporates a proposal applicable to other European languages, illustrated by the wealth of English examples included in the exposition. Among the topics discussed are the syntactic component of constructions (following here a proposal recently published in Culicover and Jackendoff’s Simpler Syntax); delimitation and definition of semantic roles; the role of linking rules and their relation to prototypes; and the connection between linguistic expressions and cognitive units such as frames and schemata. The result is a notational system flexible and robust enough to describe all aspects of verb valency. ER -