Abstract
The monograph deals with valency properties of deverbal nouns in Czech. After an overview of Czech and foreign approaches to the valency of nouns and a summary of current knowledge concerning some special issues of valency of Czech deverbal nouns, we present results consisting of our analysis of syntactically and semantically compact groups of deverbal nouns as well as theoretical conclusions following from the examined language material.
We have focused our attention on Czech deverbal nouns that can be modified by a participant expressed by prepositionless dative. Such nouns were searched for in two Czech electronic corpora, Czech National Corpus (CNC) and Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT).
The obtained occurrences were manually sorted and analysed and their valency behaviour is described within the theoretical framework of the Functional Generative Description (FGD).