Download or read book Verb Valency Patterns written by Susen Faulhaber and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an empirical study of English verbs, the author discusses to what extent complementation is predictable from meaning by examining whether semantically similar verbs also exhibit the same syntactic properties. The significant number of idiosyncrasies presented rigorously challenge approaches that assume meaning to be the determining force in complementation.