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Valency
About: Valency is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1632 publications have been published within this topic receiving 26141 citations.
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TL;DR: The authors examined the idea that valency or the presence of an argument structure is a universal characteristic of verbs, an idea implicit in modern valency theory, and showed that the Japanese verb exhibits neither syntactic nor semantic valency.
Abstract: The present article examines the idea that valency or the presence of an argument structure is a universal characteristic of verbs, an idea implicit in modern valency theory. This claim, which is general in modern theories of universal grammar, becomes problematic when one follows COSERID'S "functional syntax", a concept based on HUMBOLDT'S theory of language, and seeks to establish it on the basis of the grammatical systems of individual languages. Through comparison of German with Japanese, we can see that the Japanese verb exhibits neither syntactic nor semantic valency. If one merely describes the Japanese particles which define sentence structure (joshi) in terms of the categories which were developed for the (Indo-)European languages (in particular valency, thematic roles, case and transitivity), one cannot provide an adequate description of the peculiar grammatical structure of the sentence in Japanese. In Japanese, the verb is only the semantic and not the structural core of the sentence. The only universal which can be applied to the verb is the categorical, its role as a part of speech, while the lexical sense of the verb is specific to the individual languages.
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Book•
10 Dec 2015
TL;DR: This verb dictionary's mission is to provide complete information about all verbs, allowing them to be conjugated correctly, and it provides verb conjugation tables for each type of verb, so that any verb can be conjugal in any of its forms.
Abstract: This verb dictionary's mission is to provide complete information about all verbs, allowing them to be conjugated
correctly. Each verb is thus listed by its root form, alongside the more familiar infinitive, and we also provide
verb conjugation tables for each type of verb, so that any verb can be conjugated in any of its forms.
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TL;DR: In this article, a simplified model of a carbon chain is examined: lengths of valence bonds and valency angles are determined, and a formula is derived for Ω (φ) in the form of a determinant, elements of which are in clear form.
Abstract: A simplified mechanical model of a carbon chain is examined: lengths of valence bonds and valency angles are determined. The Gibbs distribution is used for this system. A further factor Ω (φ) appears, which is significant. A formula is derived for Ω (φ) in the form of a determinant, elements of which are in a clear form. The effect of Ω (φ) is examined using low n values (n is the number of carbon atoms). The existence of a correlation between angles is emphasized even in the absence of potential interaction.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an upper bound for the maximum number of vertices in a distance-biregular bipartite graph with the second largest eigenvalue was obtained.
Abstract: Let $b(k,\ell,\theta)$ be the maximum number of vertices of valency $k$ in a $(k,\ell)$-semiregular bipartite graph with second largest eigenvalue $\theta$. We obtain an upper bound for $b(k,\ell,\theta)$ for $0 < \theta < \sqrt{k-1} + \sqrt{\ell-1}$. This bound is tight when there exists a distance-biregular graph with particular parameters, and we develop the necessary properties of distance-biregular graphs to prove this.
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