A Valency Dictionary of English —— A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Complementation Patterns of English Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives

----- 英语价位字典：基于语料库的英语动词，名词和形容词补语模式的分析

ISBN: 9783110171945 出版年：2013 页码：1,008 Herbst, Thomas Heath, David Roe, Ian F De Gruyter Mouton

This dictionary provides a valency description of English verbs, nouns and adjectives. Each entry contains a comprehensive list of the complementation patterns identified on the basis of the largest corpus of English available at the present time. All examples are taken directly from the COBUILD/Birmingham corpus. The valency description comprises statements about the quantitative valency of the lexical units established, an inventory of their obligatory, contextually optional and purely optional complements as well as systematic information on the semantic and collocational properties of the complements. An outline of the model of valency theory used in this dictionary is provided in the introduction. Key Features unique reference work with no comparable publication on the market English is the world's most important lingua franca and the most frequently learned second language