Essays about: "valency pattern"

Found 1 essay containing the words valency pattern.

  1. 1. Five English Verbs : A Comparison between Dictionary meanings and Meanings in Corpus collocations

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Susanne Sörensen; [2006]
    Keywords : word convention; verbum; utterance; polysemy; polysemous verb; lexical item; prototypical semantics; computational linguistics; monosemous units of meaning; principle of lexical contrast; valency pattern; selectional restrictions; collocational string; collocational profile; disambiguation;

    Abstract : In Norstedts Comprehensive English-Swedish Dictionary (2000) it is said that the numbered list of senses under each headword is frequency ordered. Thus, the aim of this study is to see whether this frequency order of senses agrees with the frequencies appearing in the British National Corpus (BNC). Five English, polysemous verbs were studied. READ MORE