@inproceedings{L16-1082,
 abstract = {In this paper, we focus on Czech complex predicates formed by a light verb and a predicative noun expressed as the direct object. Although Czech ― as an inflectional language encoding syntactic relations via morphological cases ― provides an excellent opportunity to study the distribution of valency complements in the syntactic structure with complex predicates, this distribution has not been described so far. On the basis of a manual analysis of the richly annotated data from the Prague Dependency Treebank, we thus formulate principles governing this distribution. In an automatic experiment, we verify these principles on well-formed syntactic structures from the Prague Dependency Treebank and the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank with very satisfactory results: the distribution of 97\% of valency complements in the surface structure is governed by the proposed principles. These results corroborate that the surface structure formation of complex predicates is a regular process.
},
 address = {Portorož, Slovenia},
 author = {Václava Kettnerová and Eduard Bejček},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)},
 month = {May},
 pages = {515--521},
 publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
 title = {Distribution of Valency Complements in Czech Complex Predicates: Between Verb and Noun},
 url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L16-1082},
 year = {2016}
}