Distribution of Valency Complements in Czech Complex Predicates: Between Verb and Noun

Václava Kettnerová, Eduard Bejček

Abstract
In this paper, we focus on Czech complex predicates formed by a light verb and a predicative noun expressed as the direct object. Although Czech ― as an inflectional language encoding syntactic relations via morphological cases ― provides an excellent opportunity to study the distribution of valency complements in the syntactic structure with complex predicates, this distribution has not been described so far. On the basis of a manual analysis of the richly annotated data from the Prague Dependency Treebank, we thus formulate principles governing this distribution. In an automatic experiment, we verify these principles on well-formed syntactic structures from the Prague Dependency Treebank and the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank with very satisfactory results: the distribution of 97% of valency complements in the surface structure is governed by the proposed principles. These results corroborate that the surface structure formation of complex predicates is a regular process.
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L16-1082
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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515–521
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Václava Kettnerová and Eduard Bejček. 2016. Distribution of Valency Complements in Czech Complex Predicates: Between Verb and Noun. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 515–521, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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