Towards English-Czech Parallel Valency Lexicon via Treebank Examples

The paper describes an ongoing project of building a bilingual valency lexicon in the framework of Functional Generative Description. The bilingual lexicon is designed as a result of interlinking frames and frame elements of two already existing valency lexicons. First, we give an overall account of the character of the lexicons to be linked, second, the process of frame linking is explained, and third, a case study is presented to exemplify what the information contained in frame links tells us about crosslinguistic differences in general and the linguistic theory applied.