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Describing Verb Valency

Practical and Theoretical Issues

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Authors:
  1. Mário Alberto Perini

    1. Letras, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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  • Develops a notational system to describe verb valency

  • Proposes a descriptive language that represents syntactic and semantic information present in constructions and in lexical items

  • Can be applied to most European languages

  • Illustrates an application of Culicover and Jackendoff's Simpler Syntax hypothesis to the description of a language

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Constructions, Diatheses, Valency

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    Pages 1-35

  3. Syntactic Functions

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    Pages 37-52

  4. Semantic Roles in Grammatical Description

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    Pages 53-64

  5. Delimitation and Definition

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    Pages 65-101

  6. Core CSRs

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    Pages 103-111

  7. Coding Semantic Relations

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    Pages 113-140

  8. Prepositions, Transparency, and Prototypes

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    Pages 141-152

  9. Hierarchies and Human Subjects

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    Pages 153-173

  10. Direct Schema Connections

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    Pages 175-187

  11. Other Aspects of the Role-Coding Process

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    Pages 189-201

  12. Paring Diatheses Down

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    Pages 203-209

  13. Summary

    • Mário A. Perini
    Pages 211-226

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 227-287
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Letras, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Mário Alberto Perini

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Describing Verb Valency

  • Book Subtitle: Practical and Theoretical Issues

  • Authors: Mário Alberto Perini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20985-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20984-5Published: 25 September 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37049-1Published: 22 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20985-2Published: 15 September 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 287

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Romance Languages, Semantics, Syntax

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