Valensbeskrivning i svenska ordböcker – och några andra

Abstract

The article (Valency description in Swedish dictionaries and some others) gives an overview of how valency information is represented in some Swedish and Nordic dictionaries, and in particular in Lexin’s Svenska Ord, NEO and SO and the Danish DDO. Since the functional perspective is a point of departure in the article, we address issues concerning the relevance and transparency of valency information for L2 and also Ll users. We also focus on the types of syntactic and semantic information conveyed by valency codes and their form. To improve the consistency of valency representation in dictionaries, we propose some final checks which could be performed by lexicographers, namely by comparing the valency data either from the point of view of a particular type of a valency construction or a lemma form. The lemma-checking can be applied to words: (i) sharing the same final lemma, (ii) standing in derivative relations (e.g, verbs and verbal nouns) and (iii) being semantically related. Finally, we reflect on possibilities to represent valency information in e-dictionaries.