Describing Verb Valency

Practical and Theoretical Issues

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvMário Alberto Perini,Mario Alberto Perini

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-10-22
Mått155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor287
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319370491

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Mário A. Perini holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas and did postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois. He taught Linguistics and Portuguese at three Brazilian universities (UFMG, UNICAMP and PUC-Minas) and two American ones (Illinois and Mississippi). To date, he has published twelve books on Linguistics and on the Portuguese language, including the first ever grammar of spoken Brazilian Portuguese. His main areas of interest are Portuguese Grammar, Cognition, Construction Grammars, Methodology, and Linguistic Theory and Analysis. He is currently developing research on verb valencies at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG), where he leads a project involving researchers from four Brazilian universities; the project aims at the construction of a valency dictionary of Brazilian Portuguese.

Chapter 1 Constructions, Diatheses, Valency.- Chapter 2 Syntactic Functions.- Chapter 3 Semantic Roles in Grammatical Description.- Chapter 4 Delimitation and Definition.- Chapter 5 Core CSRs.- Chapter 6 Coding Semantic Relations.- Chapter 7 Prepositions, Transparency, and Prototypes.- Chapter 8 Hierarchies and Human Subjects.- Chapter 9 Direct Schema Connections.- Chapter 10 Other Aspects of the Role-coding Process.- Chapter 11 Paring Diatheses Down.- Chapter 12 Summary.- Appendix 1 Some Verbs and their Valencies.- Appendix 2 The FrameNet Project (with Larissa Ciríaco).- Appendix 3 The ADESSE Database.- Appendix 4 The Erlangen Valency Patternbank.- Appendix 5 Other Databases and Valency Dictionaries.- Appendix 6 Why the Passive Construction is a Diathesis of ser.