Verb Valency Patterns

This book PDF is perfect for those who love Foreign Language Study genre, written by Susen Faulhaber and published by Walter de Gruyter which was released on 17 May 2024 with total hardcover pages 375. You could read this book directly on your devices with pdf, epub and kindle format, check detail and related Verb Valency Patterns books below.

Verb Valency Patterns
Author : Susen Faulhaber
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Language : English
Release Date : 17 May 2024
ISBN : 9783110240719
Pages : 375 pages
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Based on an empirical study of English verbs, the author discusses to what extent complementation is predictable from meaning by examining whether semantically similar verbs also exhibit the same syntactic properties. The significant number of idiosyncrasies presented rigorously challenge approaches that assume meaning to be the determining force in complementation.

Verb Valency Patterns

Based on an empirical study of English verbs, the author discusses to what extent complementation is predictable from meaning by examining whether semantically similar verbs also exhibit the same syntactic properties. The significant number of idiosyncrasies presented rigorously challenge approaches that assume meaning to be the determining force in complementation.

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