Principal investigator (ÚFAL): 
Provider: 
Grant id: 
P406/12/P190
ÚFAL budget: 
1499 tis.
Duration: 
2012-2014

Systematic, economical and corpus-based description of valency properties of Czech deverbal nouns (theory and practice)


The project deals with issues of valency of Czech deverbal nouns. Both theoretical results and experience in
the work with data are expected. The theoretical description applied in the project is systematic, economical,
and corpus-based. It is based on the theory of valency as developed in the framework of the Functional
Generative Description. In the field of the theoretical research the following results are expected: the analysis
of adnominal modifications expressed by prepositionless Instrumental and Genitive, and the description of
unique and universal valency properties of the selected semantic classes of nouns. The work with data
includes creation and editing of nominal entries to be added to the valency dictionary PDT-VALLEX,
and elaboration of clear guidelines for annotation of nominal valency in PDT. The project will aim at the
solution of problems that accompany annotation of valency of nouns in actual corpus data (e.g. delimitation
of boundaries among particular meanings of the treated nouns) to ensure consistency of annotated data.

Publications

  • Kolářová, V.: Valence dějových substantiv odvozených od sloves s předmětovým genitivem. In: Čmejrková S., Hoffmannová J., Klímová J. (eds.): Čeština v pohledu synchronním a diachronním - Stoleté kořeny Ústavu pro jazyk český. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2012, pp. 609-614. ISBN 978-80-246-2121-0.
  • Kolářová, V.: Czech nouns derived from verbs with an objective genitive: Their contribution to the theory of valency. In: 7th International Corpus Linguistics Conference, CL2013, Abstract book. UCREL, 2013, pp. 147-150.
  • Kolářová, V.: Adverbální předmětový genitiv a jeho protějšky v nominálních konstrukcích: Případ posesiva. Accepted for publication in: Philologica, Sborník z konference Slovo a tvar v štruktúre a komunikácii, Copyright © Univerzita Komenského v Bratislavě, Filozofická fakulta, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2013.
  • Kolářová, V.: Agents expressed by prepositionless instrumental modifying Czech nouns derived from intransitive verbs.In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Slovko 2013; Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, E-learning, Copyright © RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid, Germany, ISBN 978-3-942303-18-7, pp. 129-147, 2013.