Disadvantages Of Dictionary Essay

2.1. Advantages and Disadvantages of VDE

First argument in favor of the Valency Dictionary of English language is that it aimed to find a compromise between these two types of dictionary (scholary dictionary and learner’s dictionary). “It aims at greatest possible user-friendliness while at the same time providing a linguistically accurate description of the complementation aspects of the English Lexicon that aims to be of value to applied and theoretical linguistics and to encourage further research in the field” [Herbst 2004: xxiii]. Thus, this dictionary can be a useful and helpful instrument for further scientific researches. “Valency, however, is also a common source of errors in foreign language learning and thus a very important factor

“Is it avoid something or avoid doing something?”, “Is try to do something the same as try doing something?” or “Can you say the exhibition opened in English or not?” [Herbst 2004: vii]. That is, Valency Dictionary is aimed to answer such questions about certain words of English which may cause problems for students who learn English as their second language. Thirdly, Valency Dictionary of English is directly meant for the following groups:

ꟷ linguists: to carry out a research in the field of verb, adjective and noun complementation ;

ꟷ applied linguists, grammarians and lexicographers to develop new teaching materials

ꟷ advanced foreign learners: to write grammatically correct and idiomatic English as it shows them which constructions a word can be used with

ꟷ non-native teachers of English: to mark student’s papers because it tells them whether a construction a student has used is found frequently, occasionally or not at all in present-day English” [Herbst 2004:

Moreover, dictionary entries fully rely on the material provided in corpus: “In particular, almost all the examples are taken, sometimes in a slightly modified form, straight from the Bank of English” [Herbst 2004: vii]. Consequently, these examples “reflect authentic present-day English” [Herbst 2004: vii].

At last but not least is that Valency Dictionary of English language has an online-resource based on VDE ꟷ Erlangen Valency Patternbank, “which focuses on formal valency patterns and allows users not only to see which valency patterns exist for a given verb, noun or adjective but also which valency carries occur with a particular valency pattern” [Klotz 2016:230]. It must be mentioned that the verbs, adjectives and nouns were chosen in terms of criterion such as frequency and complexity of valency structures they have