<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper presents results of synchronous contrastive study of fifteen most frequent Slovak full verbs and their French equivalents by the method of corpus analysis aimed at observation and comparison of their valency potential in relation to their semantic structure. The inventory of valency structures of Slovak verbs and their French equivalents shows not only differences, but also, to a great extent, identical semantic-syntactic connectivities. The main apport of the study lies in the contrastive research perspective and the interdisciplinary character on the crossroads of grammar, semantics, syntax, cognitive and corpus linguistics. Findings can be of use to linguists, terminologists, lexicographers, authors of textbooks and grammars, translators and interpreters, as well as to French-speaking learners of Slovak and Slovak students of French.</p></abstract>

The paper presents results of synchronous contrastive study of fifteen most frequent Slovak full verbs and their French equivalents by the method of corpus analysis aimed at observation and comparison of their valency potential in relation to their semantic structure. The inventory of valency structures of Slovak verbs and their French equivalents shows not only differences, but also, to a great extent, identical semantic-syntactic connectivities. The main apport of the study lies in the contrastive research perspective and the interdisciplinary character on the crossroads of grammar, semantics, syntax, cognitive and corpus linguistics. Findings can be of use to linguists, terminologists, lexicographers, authors of textbooks and grammars, translators and interpreters, as well as to French-speaking learners of Slovak and Slovak students of French.

Valency Potential of Slovak and French Verbs in Contrast

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The paper presents results of synchronous contrastive study of fifteen most frequent Slovak full verbs and their French equivalents by the method of corpus...

Valency Potential of Slovak and French Verbs in Contrast

Data publikacji: 24 sty 2018

Zakres stron: 156 - 168

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0026

Słowa kluczowe
linguistics, grammar, corpus, verb, valency

© 2017 Katarína Chovancová et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Valency Potential of Slovak and French Verbs in Contrast

Data publikacji: 24 sty 2018

Zakres stron: 156 - 168

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0026

Słowa kluczowelinguistics, grammar, corpus, verb, valency

© 2017 Katarína Chovancová et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
linguistics, grammar, corpus, verb, valency