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Other authors / contributors: | Herbst, Thomas.
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ISBN: | 9783110892581 3110892588 3110171945 9783110171945 9783110188271 3110188279 9783110188271
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 In English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | This dictionary provides a valency description of English verbs, nouns and adjectives. Each entry contains a comprehensive list of the complementation patterns identified on the basis of the largest corpus of English available at the present time. All examples are taken directly from the COBUILD/Birmingham corpus. The valency description comprises statements about the quantitative valency of the lexical units established, an inventory of their obligatory, contextually optional and purely optional complements as well as systematic information on the semantic and collocational properties of the complements. An outline of the model of valency theory used in this dictionary is provided in the introduction. Key Features unique reference work with no comparable publication on the market English is the world's most important lingua franca and the most frequently learned second language.
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Other form: | Print version: Valency dictionary of English. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2004
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Standard no.: | 9783110892581 10.1515/9783110892581
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