THE VERB AND ITS SEMANTIC POWER: ASSOCIATION AS A BASIS FOR VALENCE THEORY
Hans-Jürgen Heringer · Journal of Semantics · 1985
Valence theory has been syntactically oriented; the fundamental distinction between complements and supplements has remained withoutjustification. It is shown in this paper that (i) valence theory can be founded semantical-ly and (ii) that the distinction between complements and supplements is a semantic, relational, and gradual distinction. These are conclusions from an association experiment we are reporting which gives the distance of question words from verbs by considering frequency, latency, and rank of mention