The core ingredient of the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT; see Hajič, this volume) „valency“ indicates the capability of lexical units to combine other complementations. The PDT has adopted the concept of the valency theory of the Functional Generative Description (FGD) (see Sgall, 1967, Sgall et al, 1986). The valency theory of the FGD has first been developed for verbs, then also for other p...

Valency filling is considered a major mechanism for constructing the semantic structure of the sentence from semantic structures of words. This approach requires a broader view of valency and actant, covering all kinds of actant-bearing words and all types of valency filling. We introduce the concept of scope as a generalization of actant: it is any fragment of a Syntactic (SyntScope) or Semant...

In the modern linguistics, a limited amount of studies is devoted to “terminological valency”, however, this linguistic phenomenon needs thorough examination since it allows showing process appearance new terms with certain accuracy, which makes research topical. According leading linguists’ research, valency one most important structural characteristics lexical units, as captures entire distri...

In our contribution, we relate the development of a richly annotated corpus and a computational valency lexicon. Our valency lexicon, called PDT-Vallex (Hajič et al., 2003) has been created as a “byproduct” of the annotation of the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT) but it became an important resource for further linguistic research as well as for computational processing of the Czech language. W...

Valency refers to the capacity of verb (or a word belonging to another part of speech) to take a specific number and type of syntactically dependent language units. Valency information is thus related to particular lexemes and as such it is necessary to describe valency characteristics for separate lexemes in the form of lexicon entries. A valency lexicon is indispensable for any complex Natura...

This paper describes the building of a valency lexicon of Arabic verbs using a morphologically and syntactically annotated corpus, the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank, as its primary source. We present the theoretical account on valency developed within the Functional Generative Description theory. We apply the framework to Arabic and discuss various valency-related phenomena with respect to ...

In the present paper, we deal with diatheses in Czech from a lexicographic point of view. We propose a method of their description in the valency lexicon of Czech verbs VALLEX. We distinguish grammatical and semantic diatheses as two typologically different changes in verbal valency structure. In case of grammatical diatheses, these changes are regular enough to be described by formal syntactic...

This paper analyses the 500 most frequent verbs in contemporary Chinese and investigates their synergetic properties. The results show that the rank-frequency distributions of both valency and polysemy abide by a power-law distribution and that valency and polysemy of these verbs abide by the Good distribution and the positive negative binomial distribution respectively. Statistical analysis in...

The term valency refers to the number, type and form of arguments that are bound to a word. Valency is specific to any given lexical unit and therefore is covered by lexicons. This is a preliminary survey conducted with the creation of a valency lexicon of Czech nouns in mind. The authors of such a lexicon have to decide who will be the intended users, how the material will be presented and whi...