Valency

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Recent research on valency has yielded significant insights into language, with many findings presented for the first time in this volume, focusing primarily on English and German. It includes examples of contrastive analysis beneficial for professionals working with these languages. The psycholinguistic and computational linguistics sections illustrate the applicability of valency theory, highlighting the collaboration between theoretical and descriptive linguistics and applied disciplines. The papers address several aspects of valency analysis: (i) theoretical connections to related theories of complementation, such as dependency syntax and FrameNet; (ii) descriptive elements of valency and complementation; (iii) valency's role in describing cognitive processes in syntactic processing; (iv) contrastive aspects, particularly between English and German; and (v) potential computational applications in areas like automatic syntactic recognition and language processing. This volume features contributions from various linguistic schools, aiming to demonstrate how concepts developed for one language, often German, can be effectively applied to others, such as English.