Verb Valency and Argument Non-correspondence in a Bilingual Treebank

Abstract

In this paper we present a contrastive study of one interesting non-correspondence between deep syntactic valency structures of two different languages. On the material of the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank we observe sentences in which an Addressee argument in one language is linked translationally to a Patient argument in the other one, particularly we aim our attention at the class of judgement verbs (in a broad sense).

Keywords

• verb
• valency
• argument
• correspondence
• bilingual
• treebank