Automatic Construction of a Valency Lexicon of Czech Adjectives

Systemic and non-systemic valency behavior of Czech deverbal adjectives

“…The classification is somewhat heterogenous: types (i)-(iv) are characterized by mostly regular derivation from transgressive and participial verbal forms, types (v)-(vii) reflect what the adjectives mostly denote, and types (iv') and (viii) are singled out from the preceding groups because of their specific valency properties. 1 Because types (i)-(ii) are expected to display systemic valency behavior [7] and types (vii)-(viii) usually have no valency complementations (cf. the adjectivenoun podezřelý 'the suspect' with an empty VF and zařízení čtoucí dopravní značky 'a device reading traffic signs' vs. čtecí zařízení // *zařízení čtecí dopravní značky 'reading device // device intended for reading *traffic signs'), these DAs are only rarely covered in NomVallex.…”

“…There are two verbal morphemic forms that we consider to be subject to systemic changes, namely Nom (7) and prepositionless Acc (8). Changes Nom > Ins / od 'from'+Gen are typical of ACT of adjectives belonging to types (iv) [5] and (v), though the change Nom > od 'from'+Gen is rather rare.…”

“…For example, both podezírající 'suspecting' (2) and podezíraný 'suspected' (3) are derived from the verb podezírat 'to suspect' (1), but the governing noun of the former corresponds to the verbal Actor (ACT; i.e., who is suspecting), and of the latter to the verbal Addressee (ADDR; i.e., who is suspected). The valency complementations that remain in the valency frame (VF) of a DA are expected to inherit morphemic forms from the corresponding valency complementations of their base verb (( [6], [7]); cf. the same forms of Patient (PAT) in (1)(2)(3) and the same form of ADDR in (1-2)), or to change in a regular way, cf.…”