Frontmatter -- Contents -- Section 1: Theoretical and descriptive aspects of -- valency -- The scope of valency in grammar -- Valency complements or valency patterns? -- Describing semantic valency -- The status of valency patterns -- Verb valency patterns, constructions and -- grammaticalization -- Aspects of a diachronic valency syntax of -- German -- The valency of experiential and evaluative -- adjectives -- Valency rules? The case of verbs with propositional -- complements -- Valency issues in FrameNet -- Section 2: Cognitive issues and valency -- phenomena -- Valency and cognition - a notion in -- transition -- Valency grammar in mind -- The acquisition of argument structure -- Section 3: Contrastive aspects of valency -- Valency and the errors of learners of English and -- German -- Temporary ambiguity of German and English term -- complements -- Sentence patterns and perspective in English and -- German -- Contrasting valency in English and German -- Valency in a contrastive perspective: Structure and -- use -- Section 4: Computational aspects of valency -- analysis -- Valency and automatic syntactic and semantic -- analysis -- Handling valency and coordination in Database -- Semantics -- Pronominal clitics and valency in Albanian: A -- computational linguistics perspective and modelling within the -- LAG-Framework -- The practical use of valencies in the Erlangen -- speech dialogue system CONALD -- Valency data for Natural Language Processing: What -- can the Valency Dictionary of English provide? -- Backmatter