The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and synthetic compounds) in a variet

This dictionary provides a valency description of English verbs, nouns and adjectives. Each entry contains a comprehensive list of the complementation patterns

The argument structure of verbs, defined as the part of grammar that deals with how participants in verbal events are expressed in clauses, is a classical topic

Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world.

In recent years, research on valency has led to important insights into the nature of language. Some of these findings are published in this volume for the firs