Idiosyncrasy in Verb Valency Patterns
Susen Faulhaber · Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik · 2011
In this paper it will be shown that neither analogy nor semantic rules can sufficiently account for verb complementation patterns. Summarizing the results of a large-scale corpus-based study (Faulhaber 2011), the author provides evidence for various syntactic gaps which are idiosyncratic and cannot be deduced by speakers on the basis of their semantic knowledge of the verb itself nor their knowledge of semantically similar verbs, which underlines the importance of the role of storage or memorization of valency patterns in combination with the verb as the valency carrier.