| Table of Contents | |
| 0 | Introduction |
| 1 | Basic priciples of a valency description |
| 1.1 | Valency theory in relation to other approaches |
| 1.2 | The development of valency theory |
| 2 | Basic categories of valency theory |
| 2.1 | Syntactic and semantic valency |
| 2.1.1 | Complements and adjuncts |
| 2.1.2 | Quantitative and qualitative - syntactic and semantic valency |
| 2.2 | Obligatory and optional complements |
| 2.2.1 | Three types of complement |
| 2.2.2 | Obligatory complements |
| 2.2.3 | Optional and contextually optional complements |
| 2.3 | Optional complements and adjuncts |
| 2.3.1 | Syntactic test criteria |
| 2.3.2 | One-word adverbs or adverbial clauses |
| 2.3.3 | Positional mobility |
| 2.3.4 | Question tests |
| 2.4 | Different types of necessity |
| 2.4.1 | Valency and communicative necessity |
| 2.4.2 | Subjects: Valency and structural necessity |
| 3 | Complement classes in English |
| 3.1 | The levels of valency and sentence structure |
| 3.2 | The character of the complements |
| 3.2.1 | Criteria used for identifying complement classes |
| 3.2.2 | Morphological properties of complements |
| 3.2.3 | Positional properties: [C]1, [C]2 |
| 3.2.4 | Ability to occur as subject |
| 3.2.4.1 | [C]a, [C]p, [C]o |
| 3.2.4.2 | Restrictions |
| 3.2.5 | Complement classes as formal categories |
| 3.3 | Noun phrase complements |
| 3.3.1 | Complement Classes [NP]a, [NP]p, [NP]o |
| 3.3.2 | Alternative approaches: subject and object attributes |
| 3.3.3 | An alternative approach: direct and indirect object |
| 3.4 | Adjective Phrase Complements |
| 3.5 | Clause complements |
| 3.5.1 | [CL]a, [CL]p, [CL]o and the problem of discontinuous realisation |
| 3.5.2 | Finite clause complements |
| 3.5.3 | Non-finite clause complements |
| 3.5.3.1 | Di- and trivalent constructions |
| 3.5.3.2 | Types of infinitival complementation |
| 3.5.3.3 | Clause complements without subject |
| 3.5.3.4 | Non-finite clauses with subject |
| 3.5.3.5 | Alternative analyses |
| 3.6 | Prepositional Complementation |
| 3.6.1 | Types of prepositional complement |
| 3.6.2 | Alternative analysis: prepositional verbs |
| 3.7 | The category [ADV] |
| 3.8 | Complement types [Quote] and [Sentence] |
| 3.8.1 | [Quote] |
| 3.8.2 | [Sentence] |
| 3.9 | Lexically restricted types of complement |
| 3.9.1 | [C]a |
| 3.9.1.1 | [there]a and [it]a |
| 3.9.1.2 | Alternative analysis |
| 3.9.2 | Pro-forms |
| 3.9.3 | Lexical restrictions |
| Bibliography |