Markéta Lopatková, Jarmila Panevová

1. The framework The Functional Generative Description (FGD, see Sgall, 1967, Sgall et al., 1986) was applied as a general framework for the development of the valency theory (see Panevová, 1974-75, 1980, 1994) as well as for the design of the Czech syntactically annotated corpus (PDT, see Hajič, 1998, Hajičová et al., 2001). Valency is understood as a lexico-syntactic attribute of a word – more precisely, of a particular lexical sense of the lemma, called here lexis ("lexie" in Czech terminology, see Filipec and Čermák, 1985). More precisely, we can understand a lexis as a pair formed by a lexical unit and one of its meanings. A valency frame (VF) is assigned to every autosemantic lexical unit (lexis). This, however, may be empty, e.g. with the Czech verb pršet [to rain], with nouns such as stůl [the table], adjectives as hezký [beautiful]. The labels used for the valency slots belong to the underlying structure (tectogrammatics) and, together with the lexical unit (lexis), they constitute a tectogrammatical representation of the lexical entry. With regard to the applied tasks, we include the morphemic counterparts of the particular valency slots as a part of the (complex) frame of the given unit. Valency is prototypically connected with verbs. We have distinguished two main classes of verbal complements: